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How Does Cooperation and Competition Foster or Inhibit Creativity and Innovation?
Author(s) -
Webb Jae
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of leadership studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1935-262X
pISSN - 1935-2611
DOI - 10.1002/jls.21448
Subject(s) - creativity , competition (biology) , productivity , process (computing) , social innovation , business , industrial organization , sociology , economics , psychology , public relations , political science , social psychology , economic growth , computer science , ecology , biology , operating system
The current article provides a brief insight into the relationship between cooperation and competition in organizational settings as they relate to the origination and proliferation of new ideas. Does cooperation stifle creativity? Does competition promote innovation? Or is it likely the answer resides in a more complex process somewhere in the middle? With a vested interest in organizational productivity, leadership should pay special attention to what social processes give rise to these phenomena.