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Can Creativity Make a Difference? Leveraging the Creative Work Environment to Impact Performance in Annual Revenues of Architectural Firms

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Creativity remains an elusive, intangible contributor to workplace performance despite emphases from psychoeconomic approaches. Few empirical studies investigate creativity’s influence on organizational performance in a manner applied to practice or have differentiated creative versus non-creative domains. It has also been proposed that organizations have yet to establish management frameworks maximizing their creative capital. This study examines responses to an e-survey from staff of five top ranked U.S. architectural practices (N = 90). Study findings identify potential differences between creative versus non-creative domains, factors impacting creativity in the workplace, and the relationship between organizational creativity and annual revenues.

DOI 10.11648/j.ijebo.20140204.12
Published in International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2014)
Page(s) 58-68
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Organizational Creativity, Workplace Performance, Values

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