Repeating our last year's success, our paper "The combined roles of mastery and performance climates in implementing creative ideas" got selected among the best papers selected for presentation at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, August 9-13 2013. It will therefore be published in the Best Paper Proceedings. The paper is co-authored by Miha Škerlavaj, myself, Anders Dysvik, Christina Nerstad and Chunke Su.

Here's the abstract:

"Not all creative ideas get implemented. Drawing on achievement goal theory, we propose that the interplay of two types of motivational climates (mastery and performance) moderates the curvilinear relationship between idea generation and implementation. We further suggest that these effects are universal across nations. Two field studies in non-Western countries (China: 117 employees nested within 21 groups; Slovenia: 240 employees, nested into 34 groups), revealed a triple interaction of idea generation × performance climate × mastery climate in predicting idea implementation. Results of random coefficient modeling indicate that mastery and performance climates together transform the relationship between idea generation and implementation from an inverse U-shaped curvilinear shape to a positive and more linear one. Creative ideas are most effectively implemented in conditions characterized by high mastery and performance climates. The implications for practice and future research are discussed."

The Scandinavians really know how to appreciate knowledge and research. Our AMJ publication actually got some coverage in the everyday media, in Hegnar.no (although apparently the letter Č remains a mystery for them), Ukeavisen Ledelse, Aftenposten (written by a well-known Norwegian journalist Katrine Aspaas!) - p. 1 and p. 2,  and Dagens Næringsliv (a leading Norwegian business daily!) - p. 1 and p. 2.

Touched ground in Oslo, for the fourth time now. Feels very familiar by now... at least it's just as cold as in Slovenia at the moment. But a lot more sunny, as you can see in the pic of BI.

Some nice research collaborations are taking place:

- the too-much-of-a-good-thing effect of creative idea generation on idea implementation with Miha;
- our Slovene/Chinese cross-cultural comparison of the role of the two motivational climates at work (riding two horses at once - both mastery and performance climate together are most beneficial for implementing highly creative ideas) with Miha, Christina, and Anders;
- how to transform individuals' desire (preference) for being creative into actual creativity by providing clear goals, which stimulates the flow (with Darija, Anders, and Miha);
- how leader-subordinate autonomy expectation (in)congruence predicts job crafting via competence mobilization (with Sut I and Miha);
- a skype meeting of our whole Slovene/Norwegian group with Catherine Connelly, the 'author' of knowledge hiding, on our future collaboration;

and perhaps some new ones occur...

We also finally get the chance to properly celebrate our AMJ piece in full cast.

'Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life' ~ Albert Einstein

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