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  • 2010
  • Article

Creativity

By: Beth A. Hennessey and Teresa M. Amabile
The psychological study of creativity is essential to human progress. If strides are to be made in the sciences, humanities, and arts, we must arrive at a far more detailed understanding of the creative process, its antecedents, and its inhibitors. This review,... View Details
Keywords: Creative Ability; Creativity; Social Psychology; Research; Interdisciplinary Studies
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  • 2022
  • Article

The Turn Toward Creative Work

By: Spencer Harrison, Elizabeth D. Rouse, Colin M. Fisher and Teresa M. Amabile
In this Academy of Management Collections essay, we curate a set of articles from the Academy of Management family of journals that showcase the evolution of creativity research within organizational scholarship. The articles reveal a shift from the study of... View Details
Keywords: Creative Work; Creative Process; Creativity; Organizational Culture
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  • Research Summary

Creativity and Innovation

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Starting in 2016, I undertook several new projects on creativity and innovation. The first, a revision of my 1988 componential theory of creativity and innovation, was coauthored with Michael Pratt (Boston College) and published in Research in Organizational... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Innovation
  • 12 Dec 2014
  • News

The Paradox of Managing Creativity

Keywords: management; leadership; creativity; innovation; Arts, Entertainment
  • Research Summary

Creativity

My second line of research focuses on creative improvisation in organizations.  For instance, in a chapter of the Routledge Companion to Creativity (with Teresa Amabile), I explore how emerging research on improvisation in organizations... View Details
  • February 1996
  • Background Note

Managing for Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile
Organizational stimulants and obstacles to creativity are summarized. The management tasks of supporting creativity and encouraging innovation are described as a delicate balance between over-control and chaos. A technology used to assess the climate for creativity is... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Technology
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Componential Theory of Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile
The componential theory of creativity is a comprehensive model of the social and psychological components necessary for an individual to produce creative work. The theory is grounded in a definition of creativity as the production of ideas or outcomes that are both... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Theory; Social Psychology; Organizational Culture
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  • 05 Mar 2012
  • News

Get Creative

  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem Solving

By: Léonard Boussioux, Jacqueline N. Lane, Miaomiao Zhang, Vladimir Jacimovic and Karim R. Lakhani
The rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) open up attractive opportunities for creative problem-solving through human-guided AI partnerships. To explore this potential, we initiated a crowdsourcing challenge focused on sustainable, circular economy... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Models; Crowdsourcing; Generative Ai; Creative Problem-solving; Organizational Search; AI-in-the-loop; Prompt Engineering; AI and Machine Learning; Innovation and Invention
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  • 1996
  • Chapter

Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile and M. A. Collins
Keywords: Creativity
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  • 22 May 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Componential Theory of Creativity

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile
  • September–October 1998
  • Article

How to Kill Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile
The article addresses the topic of business creativity, its benefits, and how managers can inspire it. The author's research shows that it is possible to develop the best of both worlds: organizations in which business imperatives are attended to and creativity... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Situation or Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Culture; Management Practices and Processes
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  • August 2018
  • Article

Creative Sparks or Paralysis Traps? The Effects of Contradictions on Creative Processing and Creative Products

By: Goran Calic and Sébastien Hélie
Paradoxes are an unavoidable part of work life. The unusualness of attempting to simultaneously satisfy contradictory imperatives can result in creative outcomes that simultaneously satisfy both imperatives by inducing search for, and selection of, novel and useful... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Business or Company Management; Performance
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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production

By: Daniel P. Gross
Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper studies the incentive effects of competition on... View Details
Keywords: Incentives; Tournaments; Radical Vs. Incremental Innovation; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Creativity; Innovation and Invention
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  • August 2002
  • Article

Creativity Under the Gun

By: Teresa Amabile, Constance N. Hadley and Steven J. Kramer
If you're like most managers, you've worked with people who swear they do their most creative work under tight deadlines. You may use pressure as a management technique, believing it will spur people on to great leaps of insight. You may even manage yourself this way.... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Time Management; Working Conditions; Performance Evaluation
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In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile
Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses and expanding to personality, biographical, cognitive, and social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known,... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Behavior; Innovation and Invention
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  • January 1996
  • Background Note

Creativity and Innovation in Organizations

By: Teresa M. Amabile
Creativity, the production of new and useful ideas by individuals or teams, can appear in many forms and many functions within firms of all kinds--from entrepreneurial start-ups to well-established enterprises. This note describes the varieties of creativity in... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Creativity
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  • 1990
  • Article

Cataloguing Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile
Keywords: Creativity
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  • 29 Nov 2010
  • News

On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

  • 31 Jul 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile