How Creative are Your Executives?

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Nassim Belbaly

GSCM-Montpellier Business School

Clemence Cheruy

Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School

Date Written: January 10, 2013

Abstract

Executives need to constantly boost their creativity. Understanding and managing creative behavior can help executives optimize their career evolution and how they are perceived by their colleagues, hierarchy or other executives.

The leading question: How can executives recognize and manage their creative behavior?

Findings: -Creative behaviors fall into five categories: Adapter, Constructor, Integrator, Inventor and Replicator -Executives need to recognize their behavior toward risk and learn how to optimize it in different contexts. -Executives need to match their problem solving context with the appropriate creative behavior.

Keywords: executive creativity, creative behavior, risk taking

JEL Classification: O31

Suggested Citation

Belbaly, Nassim and Cheruy, Clemence, How Creative are Your Executives? (January 10, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2449200 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2449200

Nassim Belbaly (Contact Author)

GSCM-Montpellier Business School ( email )

2300, Avenue des Moulins
Montpellier, 34185
France

Clemence Cheruy

Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School ( email )

2300 avenue des Moulins
Montpellier, 34185
France

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