Publications

Educators

1995
Book

The Product Development Challenge: Competing through Speed, Quality, and Creativity

By: K. B. Clark and S. C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Product Development

1995
Article

Attributions of Creativity: What Are the Consequences?

By: T. M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity

1995
Article

The Positive Impact of Creative Activity: Effects of Creative Task Engagement and Motivational Focus on College Student's Learning

By: R. Conti, T. M. Amabile and S. Pollack

This study assessed the effectiveness of engaging students in a creative activity on a topic as a means of encouraging an active cognitive set toward learning that topic area. This technique was examined in three motivational contexts. Before reading a short... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Behavior; Performance; Motivation and Incentives; Training

1995
Other Unpublished Work

User's Guide for KEYS: Assessing the Climate for Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile, R. Burnside and S. S. Gryskiewicz

Keywords: Creativity; Surveys

1995
Article

What Downsizing Does to Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile and R. Conti

Keywords: Creativity; Job Cuts and Outsourcing

01 Jul 1994
Conference Presentation

Work Environments Differ Between Projects High and Low in Creativity

By: R. Conti, Teresa M. Amabile, H. Coon, M. A. Collins, J. Lazenby and M. Herron

Keywords: Creativity

June 1994 (Revised September 1994)
Background Note

Commercializing Technology: Imaginative Understanding of User Needs

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

The transformation of technology into commercially successful products is a process fraught with risk and uncertainty, and increasing pressure on time to market is exacerbating the difficulties. This note first describes a study conducted by Hewlett-Packard to improve... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Communication Strategy; Customers; Design; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Research; Risk and Uncertainty; Commercialization; Technology Adoption

Educators

June 1994 (Revised March 1995)
Teaching Note

de Passe Entertainment and Creative Partners TN

By: Linda A. Hill and Joshua D. Margolis

Teaching Note for (9-494-013). View Details

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

May 1994
Article

The Work Preference Inventory: Assessing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Orientations

By: T. M. Amabile, K. G. Hill, B. A. Hennessey and E. M. Tighe

The Work Preference Inventory (WPI) is designed to assess individual differences in intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. Both the college student and the working adult versions aim to capture the major elements of intrinsic motivation (self-determination,... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Measurement and Metrics; Higher Education; Employees; Personal Characteristics

01 Mar 1994
Conference Presentation

Environmental Determinants of Work Motivation, Creativity, and Innovation: The Case of R&D Downsizing

By: Teresa M. Amabile and R. Conti

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development

1 Feb 1994
Conference Presentation

Creativity: What Is It? Where Does It Come From?

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity

January 1994 (Revised March 1995)
Background Note

Power Dynamics in Organizations

By: Linda A. Hill

Designed to introduce the concepts of power and power dynamics to students in the MBA second-year elective course Power and Influence. Defines "power" and "influence," and explores the role of power dynamics in managerial work and in the life of organizations. Combats... View Details

Keywords: Power and Influence; Organizations; Conflict and Resolution

Educators

1994
Chapter

Person and Environment in Talent Development: The Case of Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile, E. Phillips and M. A. Collins

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Creativity; Personal Characteristics

January 1994 (Revised March 1995)
Case

De Passe Entertainment and Creative Partners

By: Linda A. Hill

After 24 years at Motown Industries, Hollywood executive Suzanne de Passe has decided to go out on her own to start two new businesses. The case describes de Passe's career from her beginning as Berry Gordy's assistant at Motown Records to her presidency of Gordy/de... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Business or Company Management; Entertainment; Personal Development and Career; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Music Industry; California

1994
Article

Recognizing Creativity: A Reply to Magyari-Beck

By: T. M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity