| Title |
Creativity as the main factor for organizations‘ success: theoretical approach / |
| Authors |
Baryniene, Jurgita ; Dauknyte, Berta |
| DOI |
10.5755/j01.eis.0.9.12810 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
European integration studies: research and topicalities.. Kaunas : Technologija. 2015, no. 9, p. 235-243.. ISSN 1822-8402. eISSN 2335-8831 |
| Keywords [eng] |
creativity ; innovations ; business organizations ; model ; factors |
| Abstract [eng] |
In recent decades drastic changes of economic activity conditions are observed. Global transformations and rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) have resulted in emergence of knowledge economy where the added value is created on the basis of knowledge. Due to this reason, business organisations operating under such conditions must increasingly focus on innovations and innovative processes which would guarantee them a competitive advantage. Companies which do not create innovations or at least do not introduce innovations in their activity, is quickly pushed out of today market. In the last century the creation of innovations was an accidental process. However today it is overwhelmingly a targeted activity. In today’s society innovations are understood as vital for social and economic development. Innovations do not come up by themselves. Creativity is an important condition for innovations to occur. Although the concept of creativity is often used in both the scientific and public discourse, the boundaries of this concept are often unclear. Scientists emphasize the complexity and multidimensity of this concept. For some businesses, creativity is an important factor: clients in advertising agencies require a creative advertisement; architects, designers also often have to create an exclusive and unique creation. However, in other business areas creative thinking is not such a matter of course. Although the majority of world business organizations, while declaring the values, use such words as “innovations”, “creativity”, “new and smart thinking”, in reality they remain only the statements of declarative nature. Therefore the main problematic question arises: how the creativity can contribute to the success of business organisations. [...]. |
| Published |
Kaunas : Technologija |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2015 |
| CC license |
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