REFRAMING THE DECISION-MAKERS' DILEMMA: TOWARDS A SOCIAL CONTEXT MODEL OF CREATIVE IDEA RECOGNITION
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Mueller, Jennifer; Melwani, Shimul; Loewenstein, Jeffrey; Deal, Jennifer J.
署名单位：
University of San Diego; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Center for Creative Leadership
刊物名称：
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
ISSN/ISSBN：
0001-4273
DOI：
10.5465/amj.2013.0887
发表日期：
2018
页码：
94-110
关键词：
IMPLICIT THEORIES
INNOVATION
PROOF
work
self
PSYCHOLOGY
consensus
CONFLICT
novelty
people
摘要：
Can decision-maker roles-roles with responsibility for allocating resources toward ideas-shape which ideas people in those roles view as creative? Prior theory suggests that expertise should influence creativity assessments, yet examples abound of experts in different roles disagreeing about whether the same idea is creative. We build and test a social context model of creative idea recognition to show how decision-maker roles can shift creativity assessments. In an experimental study, we show that relative to non-decision-making roles, decision-making roles inculcate an economic mindset and so lead to downgrading otherwise creative ideas with cues of low social approval. A quasi-experimental study triangulates and extends this finding showing that organizational decision-making roles can habitually evoke an economic mindset that shapes creativity assessments. In both studies, decision-maker role, economic mindset, and social approval levels were unrelated to idea usefulness ratings. By integrating work on organizational roles, economic mindsets, and implicit theories of creative ideas, we provide a broadly applicable theoretical framework to describe how social context shapes creativity assessments. This work has important implications for the creativity and innovation literatures, and suggests a new interpretation of the longstanding puzzle of why organizations desire but often reject creative ideas.
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