{"title":"The dynamic componential model of creativity and innovation in organizations: Making progress, making meaning","authors":"Teresa M. Amabile , Michael G. Pratt","doi":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.10.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Leveraging insights gained through a burgeoning research literature over the past 28 years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in <em>Research in Organizational Behavior</em><span> in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological processes implicated in creativity that have been illuminated by recent research, and highlights organizational work environment influences on those processes. We revisit basic assumptions underlying the 1988 model, modify certain components and causal connections, and introduce four new constructs into the model: (1) a sense of progress in creative idea development; (2) the meaningfulness of the work to those carrying it out; (3) affect; and (4) synergistic extrinsic motivation. Throughout, we propose ways in which the components underlying individual and team creativity can both influence and be influenced by organizational factors crucial to innovation.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":56178,"journal":{"name":"Research in Organizational Behavior","volume":"36 ","pages":"Pages 157-183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.riob.2016.10.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55075096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where is context? Advancing status research with a contextual value perspective","authors":"Huisi(Jessica) Li , Ya-Ru Chen , Steven L. Blader","doi":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.10.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.10.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Most of the numerous studies on social status over the last decade have focused on how individual characteristics influence status attainment and effects, while much less research has examined the role of context in status dynamics. Given how important and pervasive contextual values are in all types of status hierarchies and all aspects of social life, studies on contextual influences are crucial. In order to spur more research on this critical factor, we review existing theories and empirical findings on the antecedents and effects of social status and closely inspect the untested underlying assumptions of the most prominent theory in status research: the functionalist perspective. We aim to expand the functionalist perspective by incorporating the importance of context and proposing the contextual value perspective. We discuss the different influences of cooperative versus competitive relationships—as an example of contextual factors—on status conferral and experience. We also examine the implications of the contextual value perspective for new and promising directions in status research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56178,"journal":{"name":"Research in Organizational Behavior","volume":"36 ","pages":"Pages 185-198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.riob.2016.10.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55075119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does positivity enhance work performance?: Why, when, and what we don’t know","authors":"Elizabeth R. Tenney , Jared M. Poole , Ed Diener","doi":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is evidence, spanning many decades of research, that the subjective well-being (SWB) of workers, including life satisfaction, job satisfaction, and positive affect, positively correlates with the performance of workers and organizations. However, the size of the relationships is typically small to moderate. In this review we address the question of why the relationships are not stronger. We first review evidence of a relationship moving from well-being to performance through various pathways. Workers who are high in SWB are now understood to have: 1. better health, 2. lower absenteeism, 3. greater self-regulation, 4. stronger motivation, 5. enhanced creativity, 6. positive relationships, and 7. lower turnover. Each of these variables can predict individual and organizational performance. However, the sheer number of known and possible pathways means the relationships are bound to be complex, and there are mitigating conditions at every turn. Thus, second, we review the evidence of moderators of these mediators, hypothesizing when a happier workforce is a more productive one, and when not. Future research is needed to firmly establish the pathways from different types of SWB through the mediators to metrics of performance, to further establish the moderating conditions in which these relations are most likely to occur, and to evaluate how much SWB is needed to maximize effectiveness. We end by urging scholars to conduct this future research using the highest standards of scientific integrity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56178,"journal":{"name":"Research in Organizational Behavior","volume":"36 ","pages":"Pages 27-46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.riob.2016.11.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55075134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0191-3085(16)30018-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-3085(16)30018-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56178,"journal":{"name":"Research in Organizational Behavior","volume":"36 ","pages":"Page ii"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0191-3085(16)30018-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136540323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Walter W. Powell, Aaron Horvath, Christof Brandtner
{"title":"Click and mortar: Organizations on the web","authors":"Walter W. Powell, Aaron Horvath, Christof Brandtner","doi":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The webpages of organizations are both a form of representation and a type of narrative. They entertain, persuade, express a point of view, and provide a means to organize collective action and economic exchange. Increasingly, webpages are the primary point of access between an organization and its environment. An organization's online presence offers a major new source of rich information about organizations. In this paper, we develop three perspectives on websites from an organizational point of view: as identity projects, tools, and relational maps. We draw on data from the online and offline presences of “brick and mortar” nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area to both illustrate how a digital transformation shaped these organizations and identify a host of new methods that can be used to study organizations using webpages. Finally, we reflect on both the strengths of these new sources of data as well as possible limitations and conclude with theoretical implications for organizational scholars.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56178,"journal":{"name":"Research in Organizational Behavior","volume":"36 ","pages":"Pages 101-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.riob.2016.07.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55075068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gráinne M. Fitzsimons , Esther Sackett , Eli J. Finkel
{"title":"Transactive Goal Dynamics Theory: A relational goals perspective on work teams and leadership","authors":"Gráinne M. Fitzsimons , Esther Sackett , Eli J. Finkel","doi":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.11.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.11.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Transactive Goal Dynamics (TGD) Theory</em><span> is a multi-level, relational theory of goal pursuit that can be used to understand behavior within organizational teams. The theory describes the nature of goal-related interdependence (called </span><em>transactive density</em><span>) within dyads and groups, and predicts when transactive density will have positive versus negative consequences for goal-related outcomes. TGD Theory states that within many close dyads and teams, individuals’ goals, pursuits, and outcomes come to affect each other in a dense network of goal-related interdependence, with the individuals possessing and pursuing goals oriented toward themselves, other members of the system, and the system as a whole. This article discusses novel implications of the theory for the understanding of organizational teams and team leadership, and constraints on relational dynamics within organizational contexts.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":56178,"journal":{"name":"Research in Organizational Behavior","volume":"36 ","pages":"Pages 135-155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.riob.2016.11.006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55075171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Betwixt and between identities: Liminal experience in contemporary careers","authors":"Herminia Ibarra , Otilia Obodaru","doi":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Liminality, defined as a state of being betwixt and between social roles and/or identities, is the hallmark of an increasingly precarious and fluctuating career landscape. The generative potential of the liminality construct, however, has been restricted by six key assumptions stemming from the highly institutionalized nature of the rites of passage originally studied. As originally construed, liminality (1) implied both an objective state and the subjective experience of feeling betwixt and between, and was (2) temporary, (3) obligatory, (4) guided by elders and/or supported by a community of fellow liminars, (5) rooted in culturally legitimate narratives, (6) and led to a progressive outcome, i.e., the next logical step in a role hierarchy. By recasting these assumptions as variables, we improve the construct’s clarity, precision, and applicability to contemporary liminal experiences that are increasingly under-institutionalized. We illustrate the utility of our updated conceptualization by arguing that under-institutionalized liminality is both more difficult to endure and more fertile for identity growth than the highly institutionalized experiences that gave rise to the original notion. Drawing from adult development theory, we further propose that for under-institutionalized experiences to foster identity growth, the identity processes involved need to be more akin to identity play than identity work. We discuss the theoretical implications of our ideas for research on liminality, identity, and careers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56178,"journal":{"name":"Research in Organizational Behavior","volume":"36 ","pages":"Pages 47-64"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.riob.2016.11.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55075147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nathan L. Meikle , Elizabeth R. Tenney , Don A. Moore
{"title":"Overconfidence at work: Does overconfidence survive the checks and balances of organizational life?","authors":"Nathan L. Meikle , Elizabeth R. Tenney , Don A. Moore","doi":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This review considers the role of overconfidence in organizational life, focusing on ways in which individual-level overconfidence manifests in organizations. The research reviewed offers a pessimistic assessment of the efficacy of either debiasing tools or organizational correctives, and identifies some important ways in which organizational dynamics are likely to exacerbate overconfidence among individuals. The organizational consequences of overconfidence can be substantial, especially when it comes from those at the top of the organization. However, there are also reasons to suspect that the research literature exaggerates the prevalence of overconfidence.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56178,"journal":{"name":"Research in Organizational Behavior","volume":"36 ","pages":"Pages 121-134"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.riob.2016.11.005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55075159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A dynamic and cyclical model of bounded ethicality","authors":"Dolly Chugh , Mary C. Kern","doi":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.07.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.07.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We introduce a new model of bounded ethicality which helps explain three persistent puzzles of ethical behavior: when moral awareness is or is not present, when ethical behavior is more or less consistent with past behavior, and when blind spots obscure our ethical failures. The original conception of bounded ethicality (<span>Chugh, Banaji, & Bazerman, 2005</span>) described the systematic psychological constraints on ethical behavior and has contributed to our field's understanding of the phenomena of everyday, “ordinary” unethical behavior. In this more detailed model, we delineate these systematic processes and mechanisms and show how concepts of automaticity, self-view, and self-threat play critical roles in our ethical decision-making. The model describes distinct, asymmetric patterns of (un)ethical behavior and pinpoints the contingency which determines which pattern is more likely to unfold, including when we will trend to more or less automaticity and more or less ethical behavior. Our model integrates and synthesizes many of the key models and findings in recent behavioral ethics research into a single, overarching model of ethical decision-making, offering an anchor for new questions and a new realm of study.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56178,"journal":{"name":"Research in Organizational Behavior","volume":"36 ","pages":"Pages 85-100"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.riob.2016.07.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55075085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflexivity: The role of embedded social position and entrepreneurial social skill in processes of field level change","authors":"Roy Suddaby , Thierry Viale , Yves Gendron","doi":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.riob.2016.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We examine the micro-foundations of field-level organizational change by analyzing the role of social skill and social position in individuals. Our core argument is that differences in an individual's social skill and in their social position produce different degrees of reflexivity or awareness of existing social arrangements. We demonstrate how the interaction of social skill and social position produce distinct types or categories of reflexivity, each of which contributes to institutional stability or change.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56178,"journal":{"name":"Research in Organizational Behavior","volume":"36 ","pages":"Pages 225-245"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.riob.2016.02.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55075055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}