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Organizational Creativity in Heterarchies: The Case of VFX Production

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to portray organizational creativity as embedded in heterarchies rather than hierarchies or homoarchies. By drawing upon the case of visual effects (VFX) production, we demonstrate how heterarchies with multilayered, overlapping and incongruent organizational forms constitute a potential for organizational creativity that gets activated through a particular institutional arrangement of diversity. The article shows that analytically focusing on the properties of heterarchies can be a fruitful way to conceptualize context complexity as a resource rather than a barrier for organizational creativity.

Source: Creativity and Innovation Management

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8691.2011.00598.x

Authors: Volker Spelthann, Axel Haunschild

Institutions: HafenCity University Hamburg, Universität Trier

Language: English

Topic: Management and Organizational Studies

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W1557233484

FWCI: 2.734

Cites: 53

Cited by: 18

Related to: 10