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The Routinization of Creativity: Lessons from the Case of a Video-game Creative Powerhouse

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  • Cohendet Patrick

    (Service de l’enseignement des affaires internationales / Department of International Business, Co-director, Mosaic, HEC Montréal, 3000 Chemin-de-la-Côte- Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Québec), Canada H3T 2A7)

  • Llerena Patrick

    (Professeur en Sciences Économiques / Professor in Economics, BETA – Université de Strasbourg, 61, Avenue de la Forêt Noire, 67085 Strasbourg Cedex, France)

  • Simon Laurent

    (Service de l’enseignement du management / Department of Management, Co-director, Mosaic, HEC Montréal, 3000 Chemin-de-la-Côte- Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Québec), Canada H3T 2A7)

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The aim of this contribution is to proceed to an in-depth exploration of the micro-context of the origin of routines and of their intimate link with organizational creativity. Our view is that organizational creativity orchestrates continuous interactions between different types of routines, operating at different levels of the organization. More precisely we propose distinguishing three types of routines:

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  • Cohendet Patrick & Llerena Patrick & Simon Laurent, 2014. "The Routinization of Creativity: Lessons from the Case of a Video-game Creative Powerhouse," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 234(2-3), pages 120-141, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:jns:jbstat:v:234:y:2014:i:2-3:p:120-141
    DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2014-2-303
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    Organizational creativity; organizational routines; video games;
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    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
    • L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media

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