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Creating Innovatory Climates: R&D Scientists in High‐Technology Organisations
Author(s) -
Jones Oswald E.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
creativity and innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1467-8691
pISSN - 0963-1690
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8691.1993.tb00104.x
Subject(s) - reputation , business , marketing , public relations , sociology , political science , social science
This paper details a study of over 400 R&D scientists in 10 technology‐based organisations. There were two objectives, first, to establish whether employees differentiated between organisation according to their reputations for a commitment to scientific research. Secondly, to identify the factors which ‘determined’ a good or bad reputation. The results indicate that an innovatory climate is the main determinant of an R&D Department's reputation. That is, the extent to which R&D employees believe their organisation is a good place in which to practice science is dependent upon whether or not they are encouraged to be creative and innovatory. Job satisfaction was also strongly linked to a good reputation and it is argued that this confirms the importance of an innovatory climate for R&D scientists.