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

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dc.contributor.authorAudia, Pino G.
dc.contributor.authorGoncalo, Jack A.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-17T17:28:35Z
dc.date.available2020-11-17T17:28:35Z
dc.date.issued2006-05-01
dc.description.abstractWe integrate psychological theories of individual creativity with organizational theories of exploration versus exploitation in order to examine the relationship between past success and creativity over time. A key prediction derived from this theoretical integration is that successful people should be more likely to generate new ideas, but these ideas will tend to be less divergent as they favor the exploitation of familiar knowledge at the expense of the exploration of new domains. This prediction departs from the often-held view that people who generate more ideas will also generate ideas that are more divergent. Analyses of patenting in the hard disk drive industry support our prediction and indicate that collaboration with other inventors and organizational norms for exploration attenuate the tendency for successful individuals to generate increasingly incremental ideas.
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dc.identifier.other175750
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/75941
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1060.0593
dc.rightsRequired Publisher Statement: Copyright by INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Final paper published as Audia, P.G. & Goncalo, J.A. (2007). Success and creativity over time: A study of inventors in the hard-disk drive industry. Management Science, 53, 1-15.
dc.subjectCreativity
dc.subjectExploration
dc.subjectExploitation
dc.subjectAdaptor
dc.subjectInnovator
dc.subjectIncremental
dc.subjectDivergent
dc.subjectILR
dc.subjectOrganizational behavior
dc.subjectpsychological theories
dc.subjectrelationship
dc.subjectsuccess
dc.titlePast Success and Creativity over Time: A Study of Inventors in the Hard Disk Drive Industry
dc.typearticle
local.authorAffiliationAudia, Pino G.: University of California, Berkeley
local.authorAffiliationGoncalo, Jack A.: jag97@cornell.edu Cornell University

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