STEALING FIRE: CREATIVE DEVIANCE IN THE EVOLUTION OF NEW IDEAS

What happens when an employee generates a new idea and wants to further explore it but is instructed by a manager to stop working on it? Among the various possibilities, the employee could choose to violate the manager's order and pursue the new idea illegitimately. I describe this action as cr...

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Published in:The Academy of Management review 2010-10, Vol.35 (4), p.558-578
Main Author: MAINEMELIS, CHARALAMPOS
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business innovation
Business management
Conformity
Creativity
Deviant behavior
Educational innovation
Employees
Entrepreneurship
Literature
Normativity
Organization theory
Organizational behavior
Organizational behaviour
Personnel management
Professional workers
Self-concept
Small and medium sized enterprises
Social structures
Structural strain
Studies
Work motivation
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Summary:What happens when an employee generates a new idea and wants to further explore it but is instructed by a manager to stop working on it? Among the various possibilities, the employee could choose to violate the manager's order and pursue the new idea illegitimately. I describe this action as creative deviance and, drawing on the creativity literature and deviance literature, propose a theory about its organizational conditions and implications.
ISSN:0363-7425
1930-3807
DOI:10.5465/AMR.2010.53502801