scholarly journals Membership change, idea generation, and group creativity: A motivated information processing perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843022199945
Author(s):  
Suqing Wu ◽  
Bernard A. Nijstad ◽  
Yingjie Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Membership Change ◽  
Prosocial Motivation ◽  
Processing Theory ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Motivated Information Processing ◽  
Radical Ideas

Membership change has been found to stimulate collective idea generation but to not always benefit group creativity—the generation of final outcomes that are novel and useful. Based on motivated information processing theory, we propose that membership change challenges group members to generate more ideas, but that this only contributes to group creativity when members have high levels of prosocial motivation and are willing to process and integrate each other’s ideas. In a laboratory study of 56 student groups, we found that incremental, but not radical, idea generation mediated the positive effect of membership change on group creativity, and only when group members were prosocially motivated. The present study points to different roles of incremental versus radical ideas and underscores the importance of accounting for prosocial motivation in groups for reaping the benefits of membership change in relation to group creativity.

Motivated information processing, social tuning, and group creativity.

2010 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 622-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam N. Bechtoldt ◽  
Carsten K. W. De Dreu ◽  
Bernard A. Nijstad ◽  
Hoon-Seok Choi
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Social Tuning ◽  
Motivated Information Processing

Information Processing, Motivation, and Group Creativity

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Bernard A. Nijstad ◽  
Myriam Bechtoldt ◽  
Hoon-Seok Choi
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Stimulation ◽  
Collaborative Problem Solving ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Level Information ◽  
Motivated Information Processing ◽  
Processing Motivation ◽  
The Individual

According to an information processing perspective, group creativity results from the combination of individual resources into a (creative) group product. This involves information processing at the individual as well as the group level (by means of communication). This chapter first discusses how individual-level information processing is affected by group interaction in terms of both cognitive interference and cognitive stimulation. It then discusses (1) the evidence linking group-level information processing (i.e., communication, information sharing, collaborative problem solving) to group creativity and (2) the factors that stimulate or reduce group-level information processing. It is argued that many research findings can be explained by assuming that group creativity involves motivated information processing of members.

Motivated information processing and group creativity

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam Bechtoldt ◽  
Carsten De Dreu ◽  
Bernard Nijstad
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Motivated Information Processing

An Empirical Investigation on the Psychological Antecedents of Social Entrepreneurship

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Kim ◽  
Chul Woo Moon ◽  
Sang Kyun Kim ◽  
You Sang Koh ◽  
Jiseon Shin
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behavior ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Prosocial Motivation ◽  
Processing Theory ◽  
Modeling Analysis ◽  
Motivated Information Processing

Abstract Despite the growing phenomenon of social entrepreneurship, the existing literature has limited quantitative findings on its determinants. This study examines the psychological origins of social entrepreneurial behavior based on the motivated information processing theory. Our structural equation modeling analysis of 179 nascent social entrepreneurs in South Korea indicates the indirect effects of prosocial motivation on social enterprise creation behavior through perceived meaningfulness and social entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Our findings empirically identify the cognitive mechanisms between prosocial motivation and social entrepreneurial behavior. Also, the results of this research complement the existing scholarly conversations that compare the motives of social entrepreneurs with those of commercial entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals What Motivates Scientists in Emerging Economies to Become Entrepreneurs? Evidence from Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1196
Author(s):  
Thang Nguyen ◽  
Lan Nguyen ◽  
Scott Bryant ◽  
Hieu Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Prosocial Motivation ◽  
Processing Theory ◽  
Positive Externality ◽  
Motivated Information Processing

Studies of scientist entrepreneurship have recognized a diverse range of proself motivations but have largely ignored the role of prosocial motivation. As technology inventions often bring in high positive externality, we argue that prosocial motivation is important for scientist entrepreneurship and sustainable development. Drawing from motivated information processing theory we develop a model linking proself and prosocial motivation with scientist entrepreneurship. The hypotheses were tested based on survey data from a sample of Vietnamese scientists. The results show that both proself and prosocial motivation are positively associated with scientist entrepreneurship. However, the positive association between prosocial motivation and scientist entrepreneurship is lessened by proself motivation. This study calls for more attention to prosocial motivation in theory and policy development on scientist entrepreneurship.

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