Creativity: the interplay of structural and individual characteristics

Joobin Ordoobody

Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

281 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

This dissertation explores the interplay of individuals’ specialization, expertise, and position within the collaboration network in determining creativity. In this regard, each of the three chapters that constitute this dissertation provides a key finding. The first chapter reveals that the same network position can enhance or hamper an individual’s creativity, depending on that individual’s specialization and expertise. The second chapter provides different configurations of specialization, expertise, and network positions that enable the processes of importing new ideas from another field, rather than recombining ideas existing within the same professional field. The third chapter demonstrates that the exchange of ideas through social interaction, especially in the form of collaborators’ creative influence on each other, remains to be a fundamental driver of creativity even after accounting for factors that shape the collaboration network, such as similar reputation or past creative success among collaborators.
Original languageEnglish
QualificationDoctor of Philosophy
Awarding Institution
  • Tilburg University
Supervisors/Advisors
  • Simons, Tal, Promotor
  • Ebbers, J., Promotor, External person
Award date22 Feb 2022
Place of PublicationTilburg
Publisher
Print ISBNs978 90 5668 674 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Creativity: the interplay of structural and individual characteristics'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this