Innovation in Organizations: A Multi-Level Perspective on Creativity

Michael D. Mumford, Samuel T. Hunter

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Abstract

Recognizing the impact of innovation on organizational performance, scholars from a number of disciplines have sought to identify the conditions that make innovation possible. Although these studies have served to identify a number of key variables, the relationship between these variables and innovation is complex. In this chapter, we argue that the apparent complexity of these relationships may be attributed to cross-level differences in the requirements for innovation and the existence of complex interactions among the phenomena operating at a given level of analysis. The implications of this multi-level perspective for understanding how innovation occurs in organizational settings are discussed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMulti-Level Issues in Strategy and Methods
EditorsFred Dansereau, Francis Yammarino
Pages9-73
Number of pages65
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005

Publication series

NameResearch in Multi-Level Issues
Volume4
ISSN (Print)1475-9144

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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