Innovative genius: A framework for relating individual and organizational intelligences to innovation

Academy of Management Review

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1081-1111

  Glynn, Mary Ann ^a  

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EID: 0030492390     PISSN: 03637425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/AMR.1996.9704071864     Document Type: Article

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107. Mary Ann Glynn is an associate professor at the Goizueta Business School, Emory University. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. Her research has focused on understanding cognition and cognitive processes in organizations and exploiing their relationship to innovation and creativity, learning, organizational identity, and members' identification with organizations.