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      Tensions and paradoxes in creativity and innovation Translated title: Las tensiones y paradojas en la creatividad y la innovación

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          ABSTRACT Most often understood as the generation of novel and useful ideas and their implementation, research on creativity and innovation has mushroomed in recent years. Although these studies provided useful insights into how organizations can enhance both phenomena, there is a growing consensus in the literature suggesting that rather than inherently beneficial, creativity and innovation are in fact ripe with tensions and competing demands. These tensions may put individuals and teams under pressure as they try to a) come up with novel, but also useful and implementable ideas, b) complete their core tasks efficiently, but also suggest novel and useful ideas for their improvement, and c) bring uniqueness to the table, but at the same time form cohesive collectives. In this integrative review, we illustrate these tensions with research evidence and provide recommendations about how we can manage them in order to benefit from individual and team creative and innovative efforts.

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          RESUMEN A menudo entendida como la generación de ideas innovadoras y útiles y de su puesta en práctica, la investigación en creatividad e innovación ha prosperado en los últimos años. A pesar de que estos estudios hayan aportado luz sobre cómo pueden las empresas mejorar ambos fenómenos, cada vez hay mayor consenso en la literatura que indica que más que intrínsecamente favorables, la creatividad y la innovación están de hecho plagadas de tensiones y exigencias enfrentadas. Las tensiones someten a las personas y equipos a presión cuando tratan de: a) conseguir ideas innovadoras, y también útiles y que sean aplicables, b) finalizar sus principales tareas eficazmente y c) aportar originalidad, a la vez que forman colectivos cohesionados. En esta revisión integradora ilustramos estas tensiones con pruebas de investigación y damos recomendaciones sobre cómo podemos manejarlo para sacar provecho de los esfuerzos creativos e innovadores individuales y de equipo.

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                Journal
                rpto
                Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones
                Rev. psicol. trab. organ.
                Colegio Oficial de la Psicología de Madrid (Madrid, Madrid, Spain )
                1576-5962
                2174-0534
                2022
                : 38
                : 3
                : 149-163
                Affiliations
                [02] Central Denmark orgnameAarhus University Denmark
                [03] orgnameUniversity of Groningen Netherlands
                [01] orgnameUniversity of Edinburgh UK
                Article
                S1576-59622022000300002 S1576-5962(22)03800300002
                10.5093/jwop2022a19
                b4ba7a4f-f551-438e-b9a3-cb1dd5ea4527

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 27 June 2022
                : 24 October 2022
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                Special issue on "Theory Development and Research Review" in Homage to Professor José María Peiro

                Innovation,Exigencias enfrentadas,Paradojas,Tensiones,Innovación,Creatividad,Competing demands,Paradoxes,Tensions,Creativity

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