Testing an alternative relationship between individual and contextual predictors of creative performance

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-136

  Lim, Hyoun Sook ^a   Choi, Jin Nam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Creative ability; Creativity; Creativity efficacy; Group norms; Leadership; Positive attitude toward creativity.

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849299206     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2009.37.1.117     Document Type: Article

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