Title: Managing creativity – for fun and for profit

Authors: Solomon J. Buchsbaum

Addresses: Executive Vice President, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

Abstract: A company|s mission, organization, research and development environment and internal information flows are important factors contributing to its creativity and overall success. Even more important is the selection and motivation of its people. The paper describes AT&T Bell Laboratories| strategy for managing creative effort ||for fun and for profit||. This paper is based on a speech delivered at the symposium ||Creativity in science|| held at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, 13-14 August 1984, and published in the Proceedings of that symposium.

Keywords: corporate management; mission oriented R&D; motivational factors; research and development; creativity management; AT&T Bell Laboratories.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.1986.026097

International Journal of Technology Management, 1986 Vol.1 No.1/2, pp.51 - 64

Published online: 27 May 2009 *

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