Creativity: the influence of cultural, social, and work contexts

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 351-370

  Erez, Miriam ^a   Nouri, Rikki ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Creativity; Culture; Novelty; Social context; Task context; Usefulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049392046     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2010.00191.x     Document Type: Article

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