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Enhancing creative knowledge-work: Challenges and points of leverage
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In this paper, the authors explore critical success factors in knowledge-intensive creative project work, using product development as an example field, and find that most challenges are embedded in the context of the product development projects.Abstract:
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore critical success factors in knowledge‐intensive creative project work, using product development as an example field.Design/methodology/approach – Critical‐incident based in‐depth interviews of 11 product development experts (chosen based on their recommendations and length of experience) were carried out. The results were categorized into thematic classes of critical factors.Findings – Most challenges are embedded in the context of the product development projects. Collaboration and cognitive‐motivational factors such as trust, attitude, and intrinsic motivation‐related issues formed the most common classes of discovered critical factors behind product development project success, along with the mediating categories of goal and autonomy‐related factors. Furthermore, product development specific skills or knowledge accounted only for a small minority of the identified factors.Practical implications – The most pressing learning objective becomes not updatin...read more
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