Stealing Fire: Creative Deviance in the Evolution of New Ideas

By C. Mainemelis. 2010

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Innovation and Creativity in Organizations (2014, background): “Ironically, with the exception of some of the theoretical contributions we discussed earlier in this review (Bledow et al., 2009a; Zhou, 2006; and some notable conceptual articles published in the Academy of Management Review, such as Dhanarag & Parkhe, 2006; Litchfield, 2008; Mainemelis, 2010; Perr”
Creative Leadership: A Multi-Context Conceptualization† (2015, methodology): “They suggested that the creative heights of the film were substantially influenced by Coppola’s charismatic leadership (e.g. clear artistic vision, risk-taking, and unconventional behaviors) and overt creative deviance (Mainemelis, 2010).”
From Creativity to Innovation: The Social Network Drivers of the Four Phases of the Idea Journey (2017, background): “a creative idea is unique and potentially discomfiting, the creator must balance some uncertainty and risk with traditional assessments of potential; he or she may anticipate initial resistance to the idea’s merits and even may pursue elaboration without authorization (Criscuolo, Salter, & Ter Wal, ”
Balancing on the Creative Highwire (2016, background): “From Pontiac’s popular car the Fiero (Pinchot, 1985), to HewlettPackard’s successful electronic display (Nemeth, 1997), to hit movies and television shows such as Star Wars, The Truman Show, and Seinfeld (Elsbach & Kramer, 2003), managers have rejected novel ideas that others subsequently developed ”
When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity (2020, neutral): “Creativity is a goal for some managers and in some jobs (Shalley, Gilson, & Blum, 2000), whereas in others, it is not expected and may even be forbidden (Mainemelis, 2010).”
Are you really doing good things in your boss's eyes? Interactive effects of employee innovative work behavior and leader–member exchange on supervisory performance ratings (2018, background): “Yet, when employees spend time and resources on activities not prescribed in their job descriptions, their supervisors may not truly understand what they are really doing (Mainemelis, 2010).”
Leaders' responses to creative deviance: Differential effects on subsequent creative deviance and creative performance (2016, methodology): “…the concept by showing that while macro-contextual elements, such as the organization's structural strain, its general normative enforcement (Mainemelis, 2010), and its formalization (Criscuolo et al., 2014) may influence the overall rate of creative deviance in thework context (Mainemelis,…”
Corporate Governance Deviance (2016, positive): “While Merton (1968) also utilizes a middle range approach to develop his strain theory of socially deviant behavior by individuals, more recent organizational research expands on Merton’s work by exploring organizational deviance as a creative opportunity (Mainemelis, 2010).”
A comparison of self-ratings and non-self-report measures of employee creativity (2012, background): “Mainemelis (2010) refers to this phenomenon as ‘creative deviance.’”
National Rates of Opportunity Entrepreneurship Activity: Insights from Institutional Anomie Theory (2014, methodology): “To answer this question, at least in part, we develop and test a theoretical argument viewing entrepreneurship as a type of “creative deviance” (Mainemelis, 2010) that arises from the existence of anomic strain in societies.”