Expanding the Scope and Impact of Organizational Creativity Research

Although creativity in the workplace is still an emerging research field, considerable progress has been made toward an understanding of what factors promote or restrict creativity in the workplace. Indeed, chapters in this volume represent a constellation of distinctive research contributions. This research ranges from identifying critical factors operating at the individual level of analysis (e.g., leadership, feedback, goals, and roles), to creativity in groups and teams, social networks, climate and culture, and to an organizational level analysis such as organizing structure and politics. Also, creativity research is linked to other research areas such as research on organizational change and innovation. Finally, practical and managerial implications of creativity research are explored. The chapters represent both the breadth and depth of research on creativity in the workplace, and they allow the readers to appreciate this body of work through both a historical and a contemporary lens.