Radical and Incremental Creativity: a Systematic Review

Employee creativity is vital for contemporary companies to survive and develop in the VUCA era. Although numerous research has contributed to employee literature by examining organizational factors that improve employee creativity, a better understanding is still needed regarding the differences between radical and incremental creativity, especially the different mechanisms to impact two kinds of creativity. To address this problem, we aim to provide a systematic review of radical and incremental creativity by a) clarifying the definitions and measurements of radical and incremental creativity; b) identifying the antecedents of radical and incremental creativity and developing an integrative framework; and c) comparing the differences regarding how to improve radical and incremental creativity. We also address several future research directions in the end.