Past Success and Creativity over Time: A Study of Inventors in the Hard Disk Drive Industry

By Pino G. Audia, Jack A. Goncalo. Management Sciences, 2007

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Strategy and Management

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Different Strokes for Different Teams: The Contingent Effects of Positive and Negative Feedback on the Creativity of Informationally Homogeneous and Diverse Teams (2017, background): “Individual-level research suggests that repeated success on prior projects makes inventors overly reliant on their prior recipe for success and reduce their creativity on future projects (Audia & Goncalo, 2007).”
Balancing on the Creative Highwire (2016, background): “Abundant empirical evidence across a diverse array of domains suggests that creative success usually spikes and then declines (Dennis, 1966; Stern, 1978; Stephan and Levin, 1993; Simonton, 1997; Audia and Goncalo, 2007; Bayus, 2013), and scholars have proposed theories to explain this puzzling rise ”
Organizational learning research: Past, present and future (2011, background): “Research on knowledge creation would benefit from building on research on creativity, especially research on how experience affects creativity (for example see Audia and Goncalo, 2007; Taylor and Greve, 2006).”
First, get your feet wet: The effects of learning from direct and indirect experience on team creativity (2010, background): “Similarly, the extent to which patented ideas deviate from an inventor’s previous patents has served as an indicator for the creativity of the generated ideas (Audia & Goncalo, 2007).”
Exploration and Exploitation in Innovation: Reframing the Interpretation (2008, background): “Audia & Goncalo (2007) Exploration and exploitation as different types of creativity of individuals.”
Resource constraints as triggers of radical innovation: Longitudinal evidence from the manufacturing sector (2013, background): “project is begun (Audia and Goncalo, 2007; Christensen, 1997; March, 1991; Levinthal and March, 1993).”
Creativity at the Knowledge Frontier: The Impact of Specialization in Fast- and Slow-paced Domains* (2018, background): “Specialization in a domain can therefore lead to the formation of habitual behaviors rooted in one’s knowledge structure (Aarts, Verplanken, and van Knippenberg, 1998; Aarts and Dijksterhuis, 2000; Audia and Goncalo, 2007; Murray and Häubl, 2007; Chai, 2017).”
Knowledge, Networks, and Knowledge Networks (2011, background): “While some studies suggest more direct ties improve an individual’s innovativeness (Audia & Goncalo, 2007; Ebadi & Utterback, 1984; Laband & Tollison, 2000), others have found an inverted U-shaped effect (McFadyen & Cannella, 2004), suggesting the costs of more ties can ultimately exceed their…”
Proactive Personality, Employee Creativity, and Newcomer Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study (2009, background): “Thus, future research needs to use more objective indices of creativity such as supervisory or peer evaluations and publications, patterns or number of suggestions, and basic laboratory studies (cf. Audia and Goncalo 2007 ).”
Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas over Time: An Analysis of the Dell IdeaStorm Community (2013, result): “In contrast to the research on the patenting activity of inventors (Audia and Goncalo 2007, Conti et al. 2010), the present study empirically demonstrates that individuals in the crowd are unlikely to generate additional implemented ideas once some of their ideas are implemented.”
Follow the crowd in a new direction: When conformity pressure facilitates group creativity (and when it does not) (2012, background): “Nevertheless, it is still possible that highly creative people may be more suited to the early stages of exploration while less creative people may be more suited to implementation and to the generation of ideas that are incrementally related to what is already known (Audia & Goncalo, 2007).”
The Effect of Conformist and Attentive-To-Detail Members on Team Innovation: Reconciling the Innovation Paradox (2011, background): “In a similar vein, Audia and Goncalo (2007) found that success increases the tendency to generate incremental ideas rather than radical ideas and to exploit familiar knowledge at the expense of exploring new arenas.”
Where to Look? Creative Self-Efficacy, Knowledge Retrieval, and Incremental and Radical Creativity (2014, background): “…products, processes, or platforms to creative a novel and useful idea; and more radical creativity, in which new and revolutionary ideas are introduced to completely transform existing products, processes or platforms (Audia & Goncalo, 2007; Gilson & Madjar, 2011; Mumford & Gustafson, 1988).”
Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge (2011, neutral): “At the same time, prior experience can constrain creative thinking, because it can lead to drawing on familiar strategies and heuristics when solving a problem (Audia & Goncalo, 2007; Benner & Tushman, 2003).”