(aggarwal & woolley, 2019 ). however, status resources differ from ordinary resources since they are highly incen- tivized and competitive (pearce, 2011 ; kemper, 2016 ), and are related to the interests of team members. therefore, sta- tus stability inevitably affects the resource input and inter- action behavior of team members. if the setting of status stability in the team is unreasonable, this situation affects the incentivizing effect of status on team members, which may cause team members to lose their enthusiasm for work and may also cause them to engage in conflicts due to their competition for status, thus leading to the destruction of team members’ resource input and cooperative interaction behavior and hindering the improvement of team creativity. status stability refers to the degree of stability of the rela- tive status of group members (aime et al., 2014 ), as well as the timeliness and difficulty of status transformation among team members (van dijk & van engen, 2013 ). with regard to the source of such status, status stability includes formal status stability and informal status stability. the acquisi- tion of informal status is based on reputation, influence, and respect. informal status is not formally provided by the organization and may not change over a certain period of