Project Team Cohesion: When Goals Matter Less Than Intrapreueurship

Alberto Alves; Flavio Santino Bizarrias; Isabel Cristina Scafuto; Renato Penha; Luciano Ferreira da Silva

doi:10.23925/2178-0080.2025v27i1.58009

Autores

Alberto Alves Universidade Nove de Julho https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0585-9503
Flavio Santino Bizarrias Universidade Nove de Julho https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-7820
Isabel Cristina Scafuto Universidade Nove de Julho https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6788-3325
Renato Penha Universidade Nove de Julho
Luciano Ferreira da Silva Universidade Nove de Julho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2178-0080.2025v27i1.58009

Palavras-chave:

coesão da equipe, orientação para objetivos, intraempreendedorismo, projetos ágeis, gerenciamento de projetos

Resumo

Agile projects demand self-managed teams with enough cohesion to meet the established objectives. We propose pioneering that project teams may have the necessary levers for their strengthening in intrapreneurship and goal orientation. In this sense, this study aims to evaluate the influence of an individual's intrapreneurship and goal orientation on team cohesion, mediated by agility in projects. A systematic literature review was conducted to provide theoretical support for the study, supplemented by structural equation modeling and mediation analysis for the conditional tests. The results suggest a more significant influence of intrapreneurship on team cohesion than goal orientation in agile contexts.

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