Week 3: Anderson, Potocnik & Zhou (2014) Innovation and creativity in organisations: A state of the science review, prospective commentary and guiding framework Flashcards
The purpose of Andersons et al. (2014) article is to review prior literature on organisational behaviour and creativity/innovation on four levels. What are those levels?
They call that framework how?
individual
team
organisational
multilevel
the four-levels-of-analysis framework
Anderson et al. identify six influential theoretical perspectives across the literature about creativity and innovation.
What are the main perspectives they identify?
- componential theory of organisational creativity and innovation
- interactionist perspectives of organisational creativity
- model of individual creative action
- theorising on cultural differences and creativity
- four-factor theory of team climates for innovation
- ambidexterity theory
The componential theory of organisational creativity and innovation argues what?
that work environments have an impact on creativity
The interactionist perspectives of organisational creativity argues what?
creativity is a complex interaction between the individual and its work situation at different levels
the model of individual creative action argues what?
employees have to choose between two options: either to be involved in creative work or to be involved in routine and habitual work
The model of individual creative action argues that three factors influence the decision between whether someone would rather engage in habits/routine or creativity/innovation.
What are those factors?
sense making process, motivation, knowledge/skill
Theories on cultural differences in creativity argue what?
that there are significant implications that differences in creativity can stem from cultural differences
The four-factor theory of team climate for innovation argues what?
that four factors facilitate innovation:
vision, participative safety, task orientation, support for innovation
The ambidexterity theory of creativity argues what?
that successful innovation comes from a process of managing conflicting demands at multiple organisational levels by engaging in fundamentally different activities
The individual level of creative analysis concerns what? Name four examples.
traits, goal orientations, values, identity
The team level of analysis concerns itself with what? Name three examples.
team structure, climate and leadership
The organisational level of analysis concerns itself with what? Name four examples.
structure, strategy, size, resources
The multilevel analysis can be described as what?
team level + individual innovation
Anderson et al. argue that there are notable shortcomings in the creativity/innovation research field due to what reason?
the research is tortured by too many diverse approaches with a lack of integration of them
The authors argue that creativity and innovation allows firms to ____ and ____.
survive and prosper
