It’s time to sober up: The direct costs, side effects and long-term consequences of creativity and innovation
| Autor: | Verena Krause, Jack A. Goncalo, Olga M. Khessina |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Variables Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neoclassical economics Creativity Competitive advantage Profit (economics) Indirect costs 0502 economics and business Economics 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Research in Organizational Behavior. 38:107-135 |
| ISSN: | 0191-3085 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.riob.2018.11.003 |
| Popis: | The literatures on creativity and innovation are each premised on the same important assumption that has gone largely unquestioned: Creativity and innovation are outcomes that are almost inherently positive. Decades of research on creativity in organizations have been motivated by the assumption that creative ideas can be implemented to realize innovations that will inevitably increase profit, strengthen competitive advantage and ensure firm survival. The assumption that creativity and innovation have positive downstream consequences has constrained existing research by forcing a myopic focus on creativity and innovation as dependent variables. Thus, in a significant departure from the existing literature, we turn the tables to conceptualize creativity and innovation as independent variables that can have a sweeping and frequently negative impact on a wide range of other important outcomes. We conclude by calling for a new stream of research to more soberly evaluate the direct costs, side effects and long-term consequences of creativity and innovation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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