Antecedents and Consequences of Internal and External Team Learning: A Study on Turkish Software Project Teams

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between team learning, top management support, project speed and market success. The hypothesis of the study is based on a model in which top management support will lead to team learning, which will effect project speed and which in turn will lead to market success. This is a quantitative research whereby in order to analyze this relationship data has been collected from 73 separate companies from the Marmara Region of Turkey. Team leaders of 73 different teams each from one company are subjected to survey. Structural Equation Modelling has been conducted by using PLS Graph for the analysis of the data. This study has an original value of integrating top management support, external and internal team learning, the speed of the project and market success in one research while analyzing the relationship between those variables through SEM. The results of the study showed that top management support positively effects team learning and that team learning increases market success through the mediation of project speed.