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dc.contributor.authorLemmetty, Soila
dc.contributor.authorGlăveanu, Vlad Petre
dc.contributor.authorCollin, Kaija
dc.contributor.authorForsman, Panu
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-04T08:52:01Z
dc.date.available2020-05-04T08:52:01Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationLemmetty, S., Glăveanu, V. P., Collin, K., & Forsman, P. (2020). (Un)Sustainable Creativity? : Different Manager-Employee Perspectives in the Finnish Technology Sector. <i>Sustainability</i>, <i>12</i>(9), Article 3605. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/su12093605" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3390/su12093605</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_35336756
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/68807
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en
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dc.languageeng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSustainability
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.subject.othercreativity
dc.subject.othersustainability
dc.subject.otherFinland
dc.subject.othertechnology sector
dc.subject.otherqualitative analysis
dc.title(Un)Sustainable Creativity? : Different Manager-Employee Perspectives in the Finnish Technology Sector
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-202005043026
dc.contributor.laitosKasvatustieteiden laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Educationen
dc.contributor.oppiaineKasvatustiedefi
dc.contributor.oppiaineAikuiskasvatustiedefi
dc.contributor.oppiaineEducationen
dc.contributor.oppiaineAdult Educationen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.relation.issn2071-1050
dc.relation.numberinseries9
dc.relation.volume12
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.relation.grantnumber117300
dc.subject.ysokvalitatiivinen analyysi
dc.subject.ysojohtajat
dc.subject.ysokestävä kehitys
dc.subject.ysoluovuus
dc.subject.ysotyöntekijät
dc.subject.ysoinnovaatiot
dc.subject.ysoorganisaatiotutkimus
dc.subject.ysoteknologiateollisuus
dc.subject.ysokäsitykset
dc.format.contentfulltext
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p10175
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jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p8470
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p8311
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p1075
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p7903
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p7816
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p22311
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p6333
dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.relation.doi10.3390/su12093605
dc.relation.funderFinnish Work Environment Funden
dc.relation.funderTyösuojelurahastofi
jyx.fundingprogramOthersen
jyx.fundingprogramMuutfi
jyx.fundinginformationThis research was funded by Finnish Work Environment Fund, grant number 117300
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