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Organizational Creativity and Firm Performance: Towards a Multilevel Understanding (Tworczosc organizacyjna i efektywnosc organizacji – w kierunku ujecia wielopoziomowego)

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  • Katarzyna Bratnicka

    (Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach)

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Scholars have got to understand organizational creativity for its rich conceptual depth. In this paper I explore how the specific dynamic capability in today’s organizations – organizational creativity – provides the cause to reconsider assumptions surrounding this multidimensional concept from a multilevel point of view. To this end, I synthesize research on creativity in organizations and theorize connections between creative novelty-creative usefulness, and organization effectiveness across individual, team, and organization level, rooting my arguments in the claim that bottom-up and top-down processes shape key creativity-related aspects of effectiveness. Collectively, my arguments expand and, in some respects, challenge the theory on organizational creativity and open a new windows into the study of creativity in organizations.

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  • Katarzyna Bratnicka, 2015. "Organizational Creativity and Firm Performance: Towards a Multilevel Understanding (Tworczosc organizacyjna i efektywnosc organizacji – w kierunku ujecia wielopoziomowego)," Problemy Zarzadzania, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management, vol. 13(56), pages 131-143.
    • Handle: RePEc:sgm:pzwzuw:v:13:i:56:y:2015:p:131-143
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    Keywords

    motivations; microenterprises; women entrepreneurship;
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    JEL classification:

    • M19 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Other
    • L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance

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