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Development of a multidimensional scale to measure organizational creative capabilities

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  • Guy Parmentier

    (UGA INSPE Grenoble - Université Grenoble Alpes - Institut national supérieur du professorat et de l'éducation - Académie de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes)

  • Zeinab Sheet

    (UGA INSPE Grenoble - Université Grenoble Alpes - Institut national supérieur du professorat et de l'éducation - Académie de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes)

  • Florence Jeannot

    (INSEEC - Institut des hautes études économiques et commerciales | School of Business and Economics)

  • Romain Rampa

    (ÉTS - École de technologie supérieure [Montréal])

Abstract

Although the literature's case and longitudinal studies provide ample evidence of organizational routines that foster creative behaviors, it still lacks an integrative model of organizational creative capabilities (OCCs) and the quantitative evidence to validate such a model. This research is aimed at conceptualizing and developing a reliable and valid scale for OCCs. First, we define the OCC construct's domain by conducting an extensive literature review. We then generate a list of items for the five dimensions of OCCs through a qualitative study involving a group of 24 practitioners (Study 1a) and by surveying nine senior researchers (Study 1b). We refine the OCC scale using a sample of 269 responses collected in France and Canada (Study 2), and we conduct a first‐order confirmatory factor analysis (Study 3). Finally, we perform a second‐order confirmatory analysis (Study 4a) on samples of 220 responses collected mainly in the United States and Europe, generalize our results to a sample of 205 responses, and strengthen the predictive validity (Study 4b). Our results provide significant evidence that OCCs can be conceptualized around five dimensions: internal socialization routines, idea management routines, external openness routines, creative equipment routines, and internal agility routines. Furthermore, the research confirms the scale's good psychometric qualities, thus ensuring that researchers can be confident in the reliability of any future academic research design using the scale. We also validate the OCC scale's predictive validity by verifying that a five‐dimensional reflective scale with 16 indicators has a significant positive effect on the creative outcome. This OCC scale can be used by practitioners to better understand the organizational routines they have to develop in order to strengthen their organization's creativity. It also provides a way for longitudinal studies to observe how OCCs evolve over time.

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  • Guy Parmentier & Zeinab Sheet & Florence Jeannot & Romain Rampa, 2024. "Development of a multidimensional scale to measure organizational creative capabilities," Post-Print hal-04535261, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04535261
    DOI: 10.1111/jpim.12733
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