Demystifying the Role of Slack Resources and Paradox Mindset for Organizational Creativity in Family and Non-Family Firms
Purpose: The objective of the article is to explain mutual relationships between paradox mindset, slack resources, and organizational creativity in family and non-family businesses. The paper focuses on identifying similarities and differences between these two types of organizations. Design/meth...
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
2022-07-01
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| Series: | Problemy Zarządzania |
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| Online Access: | https://pz.wz.uw.edu.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=231748 |
| Summary: | Purpose: The objective of the article is to explain mutual relationships between paradox mindset, slack
resources, and organizational creativity in family and non-family businesses. The paper focuses on
identifying similarities and differences between these two types of organizations.
Design/methodology/approach: To investigate the relationships of our paper, we conducted empirical
quantitative research on the sample of 343 Polish family and non-family businesses. The data were gathered
in the fall of 2019. To assess the differences between family and non-family companies, we followed
the recommendations of SEM multigroup analyses; thus, two estimations were made for every model –
one where relationships between variables were restricted, and one where variables were unrestricted.
Findings: We conclude that slack resources, financial and material, in particular, explain the variability of
organizational creativity (operationalized in two dimensions: as creative novelty and as creative usefulness)
to a great extent in both types of organization. At the same time, the paradox mindset leads to increased
creative novelty in family businesses while it is unimportant in their non-family counterparts. Overall,
the differences between the models of determinants of organizational creativity in family and non-family
firms are not statistically significant in the present study.
Research limitations/implications: The research results prove that slack resources are a necessary
condition of organizational creativity in both family and non-family businesses. We believe that future
research on the determinants of organizational creativity dimensions in family and non-family firms should
consider more determinants, including organizational culture, strategy, mission, resource availability,
organizational learning, and change management.
Originality/value: The contribution of our study lies in developing the paradox mindset theory by conducting
an analysis at the level of the entire organization, which has not attracted the attention of researchers
so far. This study also provides arguments for the validity of the conceptualization and measurement of
the paradox mindset in a one-dimensional approach. |
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| ISSN: | 1644-9584 2300-8792 |