The Social Psychology of Organizations.

This study examined the independent and joint contributions of employees' creativity-relevant personal characteristics and three characteristics of the organizational context—job complexity, suppor...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/256657.pdf

Employee Creativity: Personal and Contextual Factors at Work

Summary Two very difJerent nmodels oJ pr-oduct innovation ar-e postulated and tested. The con rvative m-odel assumes that ininov-ation is peijormed reluictanitly-, mainl/ in r-esponise to serious challenges. It therefore pr-edic-ts that innoration will co rrelate positively with environmental, injformation processing, structlural and decision nmaking variables that represent, or help to recognize antd cope with these challenges. In conitrast, the entrepreneurial modlel supposes that innovation is alwavys aggressiv-ely plursued and w-vill be very high unless decision makers are warned to slow down. Thus negative correlations are predicted between innovation and the v-ariables that cant provide such warning. Co}rrelationial and curv ilinear regression anialyses revealed that each mi1odel wvas suppor ted by conservative and entrepreneurial sub-samples, respectively, in a diverse sanmple oj 52 Canadian firmns.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2485899.pdf

Innovation in Conservative and Entrepreneurial Firms: Two Models of Strategic Momentum

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA128980.pdf

Information Richness. A New Approach to Managerial Behavior and Organization Design

A meta-analysis and conceptual critique of research on role ambiguity and role conflict in work settings

The article reports on the importance of boundary-spanning roles (BSA), which serve to link organizations confirmed by research. They are vital to the effective monitoring of the environment as wel...

Boundary-Spanning Roles in a Research and Development Organization: An Empirical Investigation

A cross-validation study of the Kirton Adaption- Innovation Inventory (KAI) was conducted with 256 professional employees from three applied research and development organizations. The KAI was found to correlate well with direct measures of in novativeness (peer-nomination and management- rated measures of innovativeness) as well as with in direct indicators of innovativeness (number of pub lications, education, performance as rated by man agement, organizational level, self-esteem, intoler ance of ambiguity, and need for clarity). These re sults, moreover, held up well in each of the three research and development organizations. The orig inality subscale was found to be a potentially useful short version of the KAI. Implications for the use of the KAI are discussed.

A cross-validation study of the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory in three research and development organizations

The article discusses research pertaining to the personal characteristics of communicators and innovators in research and development (R&D) organizations. Preliminary results suggested an overlap b...

Winford E. Holland

Papers

Boundary-Spanning Roles in a Research and Development Organization: An Empirical Investigation

A cross-validation study of the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory in three research and development organizations

Communicators and Innovators in Research and Development Organizations

Changes in social density: relationships with functional interaction and perceptions of job characteristics, role stress, and work satisfaction.

Individual characteristics of innovativeness and communication in research and development organizations.