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Article

Research on the Relationship between Shared Leadership and Individual Creativity-Qualitative Comparative Analysis on the Basis of Clear Set

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School of Business, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
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School of Business Administration, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, Nanjing 210023, China
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Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5445; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105445
Submission received: 19 March 2021 / Revised: 26 April 2021 / Accepted: 29 April 2021 / Published: 13 May 2021

Abstract

Creativity is the key to obtaining and maintaining competitiveness of modern organizations, and it has attracted much attention from academic circles and management practices. Shared leadership is believed to effectively influence team output. However, research on the impact of individual creativity is still in its infancy. This study adopts the qualitative comparative analysis method, taking 1584 individuals as the research objects, underpinned by a questionnaire-based survey. It investigates the influence of the team’s shared leadership network elements and organizational environmental factors on the individual creativity. We have found that there are six combination of conditions of shared leadership and organizational environmental factors constituting sufficient combination of conditions to increase or decrease individual creativity. Moreover, we have noticed that the low network density of shared leadership is a sufficient and necessary condition of reducing individual creativity. Our results also provide management suggestions for practical activities during the team management.
Keywords: shared leadership; individual creativity; organizational environmental factors; csQCA shared leadership; individual creativity; organizational environmental factors; csQCA

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Sun, M.; Wang, J.; Wen, T. Research on the Relationship between Shared Leadership and Individual Creativity-Qualitative Comparative Analysis on the Basis of Clear Set. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5445. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105445

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Sun M, Wang J, Wen T. Research on the Relationship between Shared Leadership and Individual Creativity-Qualitative Comparative Analysis on the Basis of Clear Set. Sustainability. 2021; 13(10):5445. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105445

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Sun, Muyun, Jigan Wang, and Ting Wen. 2021. "Research on the Relationship between Shared Leadership and Individual Creativity-Qualitative Comparative Analysis on the Basis of Clear Set" Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5445. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105445

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Sun, M., Wang, J., & Wen, T. (2021). Research on the Relationship between Shared Leadership and Individual Creativity-Qualitative Comparative Analysis on the Basis of Clear Set. Sustainability, 13(10), 5445. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105445

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