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(Un)Sustainable Creativity? : Different Manager-Employee Perspectives in the Finnish Technology Sector (2020)

Lemmetty, S., Glăveanu, V. P., Collin, K., & Forsman, P. (2020). (Un)Sustainable Creativity? : Different Manager-Employee Perspectives in the Finnish Technology Sector. Sustainability, 12(9), Article 3605. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12093605

JYU-tekijät tai -toimittajat

Lemmetty, Soila
Collin, Kaija
Forsman, Panu

Julkaisun tiedot

Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Lemmetty, Soila; Glăveanu, Vlad Petre; Collin, Kaija; Forsman, Panu

Lehti tai sarja: Sustainability

eISSN: 2071-1050

Julkaisuvuosi: 2020

Volyymi: 12

Lehden numero: 9

Artikkelinumero: 3605

Kustantaja: MDPI

Julkaisumaa: Sveitsi

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12093605

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Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/68807

Tiivistelmä

The importance of creativity for working life and in organizations has increased in recent years. At the same time, the theme of sustainability has been intensely debated in research, society, and organizations. Together, creativity and sustainability have sometimes been described as a contradictory phenomenon: they are described in ways that place them in opposition to each other. To better understand creativity and sustainability and their differences from the perspective of people in different positions, we take advantage of a sociocultural approach in which we do not focus only on creative individuals but also on the impact of creativity on both organizational stakeholders and society at large. We aim to explore manager and employee descriptions of creativity and its relationship with sustainability at work in the Finnish technology sector, with a particular focus on how they relate to the sustainability of the creative processes and to workplace activities more generally. Based on a thematic analysis of 56 interviews, we found that the managers and employees in Finnish technology organizations described creativity in different ways, looking at the phenomenon from the viewpoints of clients, businesses, society, or colleagues, and had different perspectives on what it means to create, with the former treating creativity as huge innovations and the latter as daily problem-solving. We also found that sustainability in relation to creativity appears either as applying old solutions and thus recycling previous ideas or outcomes or as destroying old products and replacing them with the new (creative destruction). We discuss these partly conflicting discourses at the end of the article and present suggestions for future research.

YSO-asiasanat: luovuus; innovaatiot; kestävä kehitys; käsitykset; johtajat; työntekijät; teknologiateollisuus; organisaatiotutkimus; kvalitatiivinen analyysi

Vapaat asiasanat: creativity; sustainability; Finland; technology sector; qualitative analysis

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OKM-raportointi: Kyllä

Raportointivuosi: 2020

JUFO-taso: 1