Creativity in organizations: Facilitators and inhibitors

Handbook of Organizational Creativity

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 87-111

  Soriano de Alencar, Eunice M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Creativity; Creativity facilitators; Creativity inhibitors; Innovation; Organizational creativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877133446     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374714-3.00005-7     Document Type: Chapter

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