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Creativity is considered one of the most important strategic resources in knowledge-based industry. This research proposes an individual-creativity-revelation model in the business environment, and mainly focuses on the relations among task characteristics, social characteristics, and creativity-revelation processes. Based on a sample of 520 employees in the information-technology-services industry, this research investigate the effects of task characteristics – task complexity and task stress – and social characteristics – trust and social capital – on creativity-revelation processes on an individual level. We adopted two concepts of creativity-revelation processes – exploitation and exploration – and the results indicate that task characteristics and social characteristics have relations with the creativity-revelation processes.
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Choi, D.Y., Hahn, M.H., Lee, K.C. (2011). The Structure of Individual Creativity Revelation Processes with Task Characteristics and Social Characteristics: An Empirical Analysis Based on IT-Services Participants. In: Kim, Th., et al. U- and E-Service, Science and Technology. UNESST 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 264. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27210-3_25
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