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The Effects of Personal and Contextual Characteristics on Creativity: Where Should We Go from Here?

College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 800 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30332, USAchristina.shalley{at}mgt.gatech.edu

Jing Zhou

Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, USAjzhou{at}rice.edu

Greg R. Oldham

Department of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 270 Wohlers Hall, 1206 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USAg-oldham{at}uiuc.edu

This article systematically reviews and integrates empirical research that has examined the personal and contextual characteristics that enhance or stifle employee creativity in the workplace. Based on our review, we discuss possible determinants of employee creativity that have received little research attention, describe several areas where substantial challenges and unanswered questions remain, present a number of new research directions for theory building, and identify methodological improvements needed in future studies of creativity in organizations.

Journal of Management, Vol. 30, No. 6, 933-958 (2004)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jm.2004.06.007


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