Defining Creative Ideas: Toward a More Nuanced Approach

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 238-265

  Litchfield, Robert C ^a   Gilson, Lucy L ^b   Gilson, Paul W ^c  

^a WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

creativity; idea generation; novelty; usefulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925934308     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601115574945     Document Type: Article

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