Factors influencing creativity in the domain of managerial decision making

    Authors

    C. M. Ford;D. A. Gioia

    Comments

    Authors: contact us about adding a copy of your work at STARS@ucf.edu

    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Manag.

    Keywords

    SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGY; INNOVATION; ORGANIZATIONS; MODEL; WORK; ENVIRONMENT; PERFORMANCE; RATIONALITY; INTEGRATION; MANAGEMENT; Business; Psychology, Applied; Management

    Abstract

    This sturdy examines factors that influence the creativity of managers' decisions. A domain-based, evolutionary model that describes the influence of context on creative action is combined with a teleological model of creative managerial decision making derived from the strategy formulation and organizational decision process literatures. Results show that two key dimensions of managerial creativity, the novelty and the value of choices, were affected by markedly different factors. Surprisingly influences on the novelty of managers' choices were essentially independent of influences on the value of those choices. Overall, this study represents an initial attempt to describe and empirically, examine processes that affect the creativity of executives' choices. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Management

    Volume

    26

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2000

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    705

    Last Page

    732

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000089595700005

    ISSN

    0149-2063

    Share

    COinS