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Contract design and collaborative creativity in partnerships: the role of the motivation climate, types of creativity and use of intrafirm controls
In order to gain and maintain competitive advantage, organizations require a constant inflow of creative ideas from their employees and business partners. While this makes creativity one of the main drivers of success, it also means that the importance and complexity of managing creativity effectively increases. In fact, according to the World Economic Forum creativity is expected to climb the Top 10 of important skills from rank 10 in 2015 all the way to rank 3 in 2020, only topped by complex problem solving and critical thinking. In this research, we focus on the role of contracts in stimulating collaborative creativity in partnerships. In a first study, we suggest that the effects of contracts depend on the types of provisions included and differentiate between the consequences of control and coordination provisions. In addition, we propose that the motivational climate mediates the link between contractual provisions and partners' collaborative creativity (PCC). In Study II, we take into account that also the type of creativity may play a key role in determining the extent to which firms benefit from contracts in stimulating PCC. Finally, while in Studies I and II we focus predominantly on questions related to the design and effectiveness of the interfirm control structure (i.e., the contract), in Study III we ask ourselves how a partner firm’s internal controls may impact the effectiveness of the interfirm contractual provisions in stimulating PCC.
Date:1 Sep 2019 → 31 Aug 2023
Keywords:Collaborative creativity
Disciplines:Accounting and auditing
Project type:PhD project