Team innovation is related to the long-term survival of the organization. In today's open innovation environment, the cross-border activities of the team and its members are increasingly frequent. The topic of cross-border behavior and team innovation performance has attracted the attention of scholars. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between cross-border behavior, team trust, and corporate innovation performance. In this paper, a sample of 78 teams and their superiors are used as samples, and the hierarchical regression method is used for data analysis. This paper introduces team trust into the relationship between cross-border behavior and team innovation performance, constructs and demonstrates the relationship model between “cross-border behavior, team trust and team innovation performance”, and finds the boundary conditions of this relationship model. The conclusion that cross-border behavior (coordination and detection) has a positive impact on team innovation performance is achieved through the intermediary role of team trust,the standardized regression coefficients were 0.253 (P < 0.05), 0.345 (P < 0.01) and 0.355 (P < 0.01), respectively,Cross-border behavior enhances team trust and improves team innovation performance. Finding the risk factors in the process of team innovation from a new perspective has certain implications for risk aversion in enterprise innovation management.

Zhanjiang Wang. Cross-Border Behavior, Team Trust and Corporate Innovation Performance. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2021), Vol. 3, Issue 15: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2021.031501.

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