Harmonious passion

Rita Järventie-Thesleff

Chapter 47 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 178-182 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Organizations are increasingly seeking to create conditions to stimulate individual creativity since creativity can be considered as the seed of innovation. This entry presents the concept of harmonious passion in the context of creativity and innovation, and illustrates how harmonious passion interacts with autonomy to influence creativity. The concept builds on people's strong inclination towards an activity that they like, find important and internalize autonomously into their identities. Hence, harmoniously passionate individuals are creative because they feel personal enjoyment in their work and believe that they have free choice in pursuing their work-related activities. The concept of harmonious passion sheds light on the motivational mechanism that links environmental autonomy support and individual autonomy orientation (being self-determined and self-willed) to individual creativity at work. In this entry, an empirical case of a Nordic fashion magazine is used to illustrate the application of harmonious passion to foster creativity.

Keywords: Harmonious passion; Creativity; Innovation management; Autonomy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306442
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