Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity

Teresa M. Amabile; Regina Conti; Heather Coon; Jeffrey Lazenby; Michael Herron

The Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 39, No. 5. (Oct., 1996), pp. 1154-1184.

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