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| Title: | Trial and Error Mindset of R&D Personnel and its Relationship to Organizational Creative Climate |
| Authors: | Shirahada, Kunio
Hamazaki, Kazuma |
| Keywords: | R&D management
Trial and error behavior
Organizational creative climate |
| Issue Date: | 2012-10-13 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Magazine name: | Technological Forecasting and Social Change |
| Volume: | 80 |
| Number: | 6 |
| Start page: | 1108 |
| End page: | 1118 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.techfore.2012.09.005 |
| Abstract: | This paper aims to reveal the mindset of corporate R&D personnel's behavior when they break through a difficult problem. In addition, we examine the relationship between that mindset and the organizational creative climate. We defined trial and error behavior as the process of continuous knowledge creation and acquisition until success is achieved, and constructed a model. We distributed a questionnaire survey on invention and discovery activities to 706 corporate R&D personnel who had received awards from leading Japanese science academies. The results of qualitative data analysis revealed six mindsets and approaches: (i) Elimination approach, (ii) Idea exploration-oriented mindset, (iii) Cause exploration-oriented mindset, (iv) Repetitive approach, (v) Passion for trial and error, and (vi) Experience-oriented mindset. In addition, the results showed that the creative climate did not have a significant impact on the exploration-oriented trial and error mindsets of R&D personnel, such as with (ii) and (iii). Technology-oriented firms cannot develop innovative achievements if they are not willing to encourage risk taking. Our findings indicate that managers should try to understand their employees' trial and error mindsets and create an effective organizational climate that goes beyond an organizational creative climate. |
| Rights: | NOTICE: This is the author's version of a work accepted for publication by Elsevier. Kunio Shirahada and Kazuma Hamazaki, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 80(6), 2012, 1108-1118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2012.09.005 |
| URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10119/11453 |
| Material Type: | author |
| Appears in Collections: | a10-1. 雑誌掲載論文 (Journal Articles)
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