Social Influence And Creativity: Setting The Stage For Inventiveness

摘要

This special issue of Social Influence examines how social influences can affect such outcomes as creativity, innovation, originality, and inventiveness. While major advances have been made, many questions regarding the impact of contextual and social factors on creativity and innovation remain. The papers in this issue examine a rich array of contextual factors that affect these processes, discussing group, organizational, and situational attributes that both facilitate and impair creativity and innovation. They present insights into the conceptual underpinnings of those relationships and provide empirical evidence illuminating those relationships. They indeed contribute to our understanding of social influences on creativity and innovation and set the stage for future explorations of those issues.