Creative self-efficacy and individual creativity in team contexts: Cross-level interactions with team informational resources

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1282-1290

  Richter, Andreas W ^a   Hirst, Giles ^b   van Knippenberg, Daan ^c   Baer, Markus ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Creative self efficacy; Creativity; Diversity; Shared cognition; Teams

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; CREATIVITY; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CREATIVITY; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SELF EFFICACY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874059211     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029359     Document Type: Article

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