CREATIVE JOLTS: EXPLORING HOW ENTREPRENEURS LET GO OF IDEAS DURING CREATIVE REVISION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Toivonen, Tuukka; Idoko, Onyaglanu; Jha, Harsh Kumar; Harvey, Sarah
• 署名单位: University of Arts London; University of London; University College London; Cardiff University; University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2020.1054
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 829-858
• 关键词: HEDONIC TONE; DUAL PATHWAY; MODEL; work; mood; flexibility; persistence; opportunity; activation; COWORKING

摘要

Creative revision involves sharing nascent ideas and soliciting feedback. This process has been portrayed as providing instrumental feedback that enables autonomous crea-tors to shape and progress their ideas in a mostly positive, developmental way. However, creative revision also entails destruction-letting go of some ideas to make way for the new. Research has suggested that abandoning some aspects of ideas will be affectively challenging for creators, but has yet to elaborate how they navigate that challenge. In a longitudinal qualitative study of entrepreneurial ventures over a one-year period, we uncovered a novel phenomenon: the creative jolt-an episode of cognitive and emotional upheaval through which creators let go of their original ideas and allowed new ones to emerge, so that their ideas shifted in dramatic ways. We elaborate the processes through which creative jolts shape the trajectories of creative ideas. Our study captures the roll-ercoaster of heightened affect and cognitive disorientation experienced by autonomous creators as they try to bring nascent ideas to life.