Abstract

This study proposes a mediated non-recursive model based on Amabile's (1988) componential theory of organizational creativity and innovation to explain how resources, management practices, organizational motivation, expertise, creativity skills and intrinsic motivation affect innovation and creativity in organizations. Based on the results of a longitudinal survey, with 586 leader-follower dyadic data drawn from firms in the service industries in Taiwan, we found that resources, management practices and organizational motivation have unique positive direct effects on innovation, while expertise, creativity skills and intrinsic motivation have unique positive direct effects on creativity. Further, a bootstrapping estimation based on structural equation modeling (SEM) revealed that innovation mediates the positive indirect effects of resources, management practices and organizational motivation on creativity, while creativity mediates the positive indirect effects of expertise, creativity skills and intrins...

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