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Creativity and organization in pharmaceuticals R & D
Author(s) -
Osbaldeston M. D.,
Cox J. S. G.,
Loveday D. E. E.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
randd management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.253
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1467-9310
pISSN - 0033-6807
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9310.1978.tb01287.x
Subject(s) - creativity , context (archaeology) , pharmaceutical industry , order (exchange) , test (biology) , knowledge management , business , computer science , psychology , pharmacology , social psychology , medicine , biology , ecology , paleontology , finance
This paper reviews the results of a study carried out in conjunction with the Chemical and Allied Products Industry Training Board to link internal environmental factors of an organization to measures of creativity in R & D in the pharmaceutical industry. The methods adopted have been described and the preliminary results of the pilot study carried out in one organization in order to develop, refine and test methodology. It is hoped in the future that the techniques developed will be extended to provide comparisons in other organizations in the pharmaceutical industry in order to draw firm conclusions. The paper also sets the study in the context of a brief historical review of other studies in this field. It is concluded that the investigation has evolved a methodology capable of identifying and measuring some facilitatory and inhibitory influences on creativity in an R & D environment, allowing comparisons to be drawn between environmental influences in different parts of the same organization.