Title

Interpretive style, motivation, ability and context as predictors of executives’ creative performance

Keywords

Creativity; Ideation; New product development; Templates

Abstract

Creativity has overtaken financial capital as the principal constraint facing businesses. Upper-level executives must, therefore, be able to develop creative solutions to strategic and administrative issues in order for firms to remain viable. Executive creativity not only contributes directly to corporate differentiation and innovation, it also helps create an environment that encourages, or perhaps requires, creative contributions from others. Executives are critically important knowledge workers that direct and enable the creative efforts of intellectual assets within a firm. Unfortunately, few empirical studies have sought to examine the creativity of knowledge workers beyond the narrow confines of basic research or R&D labs. This article presents an initial empirical test of an integrative theory of creative individual work performance in the domain of executive work. The study shows that by simultaneously considering executives’ interpretive style, motivation to pursue creative outcomes, creative ability, and work setting one can explain substantial variation in executives’ creative work performance. © Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1999.

Publication Date

1-1-1999

Publication Title

Creativity and Innovation Management

Volume

8

Issue

3

Number of Pages

188-196

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8691.00136

Socpus ID

84994899295 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84994899295

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