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- January 1986
- Article
Social Influences on Creativity: The Effects of Contracted-For Reward
By: T. M. Amabile, B. A. Hennessey and B. S. Grossman
Three studies, with 195 5–11 yr olds and 60 female undergraduates, tested the hypothesis that explicitly contracting to do an activity in order to receive a reward would have negative effects on creativity, but receiving no reward or only a noncontracted-for reward... View Details
- September 1985
- Background Note
Finding a Job with a Small Company
Describes a process of self-evaluation for working in small companies, discusses small company issues, focuses on some basic search techniques, and ends with a little how-to section. The goal is to facilitate the process of securing a job in a small company and to show... View Details
- 1 Aug 1985
- Conference Presentation
Social Influences on Creativity: Interactive Effects of Reward and Choice
- 1985
- Book
Power and Influence: Beyond Formal Authority
By: J. P. Kotter
Keywords: Power and Influence
- May 1985
- Article
Financial Risk and the Burdens of Contracts
By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser
- April 1985
- Article
The Power of Alternatives or the Limits to Negotiation
By: James K. Sebenius and David Lax
- February 1985
- Case
Business Research Corp. (B)
Contains a description of a set of related decisions confronting the management and directors of Business Research Corp. (BRC) in April of 1984. BRC needs more capital to finance continued development of the market for a full-text database comprised of Wall Street... View Details
- February 1985
- Article
Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers
By: T. M. Amabile
72 members of the college community who identified themselves as actively involved in creative writing participated in individual laboratory sessions, in which they were asked to write 2 brief poems, to investigate the hypothesis that intrinsic motivation is conducive... View Details
- January 1985 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Turner Construction Co.
In June, 1984, a vice president at Turner Construction Co. must decide whether to approve a construction project being considered by one of Turner's territorial offices and how to manage that territory general manager's apparent reluctance to pursue another account... View Details
- Article
Chaotic Behavior Oberserved in a de-Biased Josephson Junction Driven at Far-infrared Frequencies
By: Q Hu, J U Free, Marco Iansiti, O Liengme and M Tinkham
Keywords: Behavior
- 01 Nov 1984
- Conference Presentation