Guest editorial: creativity and innovation in the firm

Alejandro Escribá‐Esteve and Ángeles Montoro‐Sánchez

International Journal of Manpower, 2012, vol. 33, issue 4, 344-348

Abstract: Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Focus Section “Creativity and innovation in the firm: managerial antecedents and effects on employees”, which forms the first of two separate parts of the journal special issue. Design/methodology/approach - The guest editors summarize the three papers which comprise this Focus Section. Findings - The selected papers are found to relate to the Focus Section theme of impact of managers’ characteristics on creativity and innovation, and innovation effects on employees. Originality/value - The paper shows that the Focus Section offers new insights for students of innovation and creativity by providing fresh ideas about whether and how top manager characteristics influence organizational creativity through their effect on employees’ creativity, by means of idealization, inspirational motivation and intellectual stimulation.

Keywords: Innovation; Managers; Employees behaviour; Creativity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1108/01437721211243796

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