Multilevel theorizing about creativity in organizations: A sensemaking perspective

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Drazin, R; Glynn, MA; Kazanjian, RK
• 署名单位: Emory University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.2307/259083
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 286-307
• 关键词: NEGOTIATED BELIEF STRUCTURES; STRATEGIC ISSUES; mental models; INNOVATION; work; experience; FRAMEWORK; personality; TECHNOLOGY; BEHAVIOR

摘要

In this article we explore assumptions about the levels of analysis embedded in the extant literature on creativity in organizations. Uncovering and then relaxing these assumptions allow us to extend the literature with an alternative but complementary model of how creativity unfolds in complex, large-scale, and long-duration organizational projects. We build on the paradigm of sensemaking and propose a multilevel model of creativity that, as its defining feature, examines how periodic organizational crises reframe the negotiated order of belief structures about creativity.