Support for innovation may increase the number of ideas developed
and implemented within the team because team members are
more likely to share new ideas and, additionally, are willing to
dedicate their time, share resources, and cooperate in implementing
selected ideas. However, high levels of support for innovation
also imply the risk that team members provide practical assistance
uncritically to any suggested idea regardless of its quality and do
not carefully select the most promising ones for innovation (West,
1990). Therefore, support for innovation may not always foster
high-quality team innovation. As a case in point, whereas some
researchers have found a positive relationship between support for
innovation and team innovation