TY - JOUR
T1 - How does bureaucracy impact individual creativity? A cross-level investigation of team contextual influences on goal orientation-creativity relationships
AU - Hirst, Giles
AU - Van Knippenberg, Daan
AU - Chen, Chin Hui
AU - Sacramento, Claudia A.
PY - 2011/6/1
Y1 - 2011/6/1
N2 - Offering important counterpoint to work identifying team influences stimulating creative expression of individual differences in goal orientation, we develop cross-level theory establishing that team bureaucratic practices (centralization and formalization) constrain creative expression. Speaking to the tension between bureaucracy and creativity, findings indicate that this influence is not only negative and that effects of centralization and formalization differ. Surveying 330 employees in 95 teams at the Taiwan Customs Bureau, we found that learning and "performance avoid" goal orientations had, respectively, stronger positive and weaker negative relationships with creativity under low centralization. A "performance- prove" orientation was positively related to creativity under low formalization.
AB - Offering important counterpoint to work identifying team influences stimulating creative expression of individual differences in goal orientation, we develop cross-level theory establishing that team bureaucratic practices (centralization and formalization) constrain creative expression. Speaking to the tension between bureaucracy and creativity, findings indicate that this influence is not only negative and that effects of centralization and formalization differ. Surveying 330 employees in 95 teams at the Taiwan Customs Bureau, we found that learning and "performance avoid" goal orientations had, respectively, stronger positive and weaker negative relationships with creativity under low centralization. A "performance- prove" orientation was positively related to creativity under low formalization.
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U2 - 10.5465/AMJ.2011.61968124
DO - 10.5465/AMJ.2011.61968124
M3 - Article
SN - 0001-4273
VL - 54
SP - 624
EP - 641
JO - Academy of Management Journal
JF - Academy of Management Journal
IS - 3
ER -