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MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION REVIEW
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 351-370Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2010.00191.x
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creativity; culture; novelty; social context; task context; usefulness
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The present article aims to answer the question of whether creativity is universal or culture-specific. We develop a conceptual framework that expands the existing knowledge in two ways. First, it distinguishes between the two dimensions of creativity - novelty and usefulness, and their relationship to culture. Second, it clarifies how the social context moderates the relationship between culture and creativity. We focus on the social context where cultural differences are likely to be more salient because of the presence of others, relative to the private work context where no one observes whether a person performs in a normative or a unique way. In addition, we propose that task structure, whether a task is tightly or loosely structured, is an important contextual characteristic that moderates the relationship between culture and creativity. Lastly, we offer several propositions to guide future research.
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