Individualism-collectivism and group creativity.

By Jack A. Goncalo, Barry M. Staw. 2006

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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The faultline activation process and the effects of activated faultlines on coalition formation, conflict, and group outcomes (2010, methodology): “To further check the effectiveness of the manipulation, we have followed Goncalo and Staw’s (2006) procedure and asked two coders blind to the hypotheses to read the verbatim of group discussions from transcribed audiotapes and code group entitlement configuration.”
Creativity from Constraint? How the Political Correctness Norm Influences Creativity in Mixed-sex Work Groups (2015, methodology): “We presented participants with a pre-generated list of 17 ideas that were common responses to this brainstorming topic in previous research (e.g., Goncalo and Staw, 2006).”
Us and Me: Team Identification and Individual Differentiation as Complementary Drivers of Team Members' Citizenship and Creative Behaviors (2008, background): “Goncalo and Staw (2006) clarified this result, which deviates from the “norms for creativity” hypothesis, with the argument that creativity, by its very nature, requires one to do something in a new or different way, which may be expected to result from the violation rather than the enforcement of…”
Implicit Theories of Creative Ideas: How Culture Guides Creativity Assessments (2016, background): “Harmony refers to the item helping people get along with one another—a feature commonly described as important to creativity in communal cultures such as Chinese culture (Goncalo & Staw, 2006).”
A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological (2020, background): “…to ideation in brainstorming groups (Mullen et al., 1991), that individualistic cultures promote creative expression more than collectivistic ones (Goncalo & Staw, 2006), and that there are some genetic and even psychopathological roots of genius level creativity (Eysenck, 1995); all these lend…”
Parsing organizational culture: How the norm for adaptability influences the relationship between culture consensus and financial performance in high-technology firms (2014, background): “In a more psychologically based version of this critique, others have argued that strong cultures can induce cognitive and behavioral uniformity among group members (Goncalo & Staw, 2006) because cohesive groups tolerate less deviation among members (Kaplan, Brooks-Shesler, King, & Zaccaro, 2009).”
When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity (2020, neutral): “Two trained research assistants coded participants ’ proposals for creativity on a 7-point Likert-type scale anchored at 1 ( not at all creative ), 4 ( somewhat creative ), and 7 ( very creative ) (Goncalo & Staw, 2006; Grant & Berry, 2011).”
A review of creativity within organizations from a psychological perspective (2010, background): “Goncalo and Staw (2006) discuss the effects of individualistic versus collectivistic cultures on creativity.”
Principles for a Cultural Psychology of Creativity (2010, background): “Moreover, creativity has been studied in relation to individualistic–collectivistic values (Goncalo & Staw, 2005) in an attempt to see whether cooperation amplifies or diminishes group creativity.”