Creativity Evaluations and Consequences in Organizations

Abstract

The innovation process in organizations usually involves collaborations and decisions about resource allocation on new ideas. Therefore, creative talents and ideas need to be first recognized to receive the support and resources needed to generate actual value for organizations. Creativity evaluation thus serves as the pivotal link between idea generation and implementation. Despite its nascence, research interest has burgeoned in creativity evaluations due to this topic’s theoretical and practical significance. This symposium is intended to showcase new research on creativity evaluations using novel and diverse theoretical perspectives and methodologies. The papers that comprise this symposium investigate individual or group factors that influence creativity evaluations as well as the downstream consequences of endorsing or rejecting creative ideas. This symposium thus provides a comprehensive view of creativity evaluations. It also illuminates connections between creativity evaluations and various important topics in management research such as diversity, first impressions, status, and deviance. The Effect of Criminal Records on Creativity Evaluation: Evidence from Music Reviews Presenter: Eun Soo Son; Georgia Institute of Technology Presenter: Haoyue Zhang; Washington U. in St. Louis, Olin Business School Presenter: Jiani Zhu; Georgia Institute of Technology The Diversity Heuristic: How Team Racial Composition Influences Judgments of Team Creativity Presenter: Devon Proudfoot; Cornell U. Presenter: Zachariah Berry; Cornell U. Presenter: Min Kay; Duke U. When Uniqueness Brings Us Together: How Initial Cues of Uniqueness Influence Creative Collaborations Presenter: Qing Gong; Georgia Institute of Technology The Idea Endorsement Double Bind: Status Loss Concerns Impede Creative Idea Endorsement Presenter: Wayne Johnson; Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Presenter: Brian J. Lucas; Cornell U. Creative Deviance in the Relationship between Psychological Ownership and Social Undermining Presenter: Jigyasu Shukla; U. of Central Florida Presenter: Ronit Kark; Bar Ilan U. Presenter: Rebecca J. Bennett; U. of Central Florida