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Teresa M. Amabile is one of the world’s leading thinkers on creativity and innovation. Her work has expanded our understanding of what it means to be creative, as well as the internal and external forces that influence it. Her contributions include measurement tools (Consensual Assessment Technique, Work Preference Inventory, KEYS to Creativity and Innovation), as well as conceptual models and principles (Dynamic Componential Model of Creativity and Innovation, Intrinsic Motivation Principle of Creativity, The Progress Principle). Through her efforts, rigorous scholarship in the field of creativity and innovation has flourished over the past four decades. Her legacy includes a much greater awareness of how the work environment shapes creativity and progress, as well as how much the inner work lives of employees matter for positive engagement and successful organizational change.
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Amabile, T. M. (1996). Creativity in context: Update to the social psychology of creativity. Westview Press.
Amabile, T. M. (2018). Creativity and the labor of love. In R. J. Sternberg & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), The nature of human creativity (pp. 1–15). Cambridge University Press.
Amabile, T. M. (2019). Educating leaders who make a difference in the world. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(1), 7–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691618804172.
Amabile, T. M., & Kramer, S. J. (2011a). Meeting the challenges of a person-centric work psychology. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 4, 116–121. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9434.2010.01308.x.
Amabile, T. M., & Kramer, S. J. (2011b). The Progress Principle: Using small wins to ignite joy, engagement, and creativity at work. Harvard Business Review Press.
Amabile, T. M., & Pratt, M. G. (2016). The dynamic componential model of creativity and innovation in organizations: Making progress, making meaning. Research in Organizational Behavior, 36, 157–183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.riob.2016.10.001.
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Hadley, C.N. (2020). Teresa M. Amabile: Innovative Scholar of Creativity and Work Environments. In: Szabla, D.B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49820-1_134-1
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