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Extending climato-economic theory: When, how, and why it explains differences in nations' creativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2013

Maciej Karwowski  and
Izabela Lebuda
Maciej Karwowski
Affiliation:
Creative Education Lab, Academy of Special Education, 02353 Warsaw, Poland. maciek.karwowski@gmail.com www.maciej-karwowski.pl izalebuda@gmail.com www.creativeeducationlab.edu.pl/lebuda.php
Izabela Lebuda
Affiliation:
Creative Education Lab, Academy of Special Education, 02353 Warsaw, Poland. maciek.karwowski@gmail.com www.maciej-karwowski.pl izalebuda@gmail.com www.creativeeducationlab.edu.pl/lebuda.php
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Abstract

The climato-economic theory postulates mechanisms of threat and challenge to explain differences between countries. Interestingly, both of these mechanisms are often considered to be components of the models of organizational climate for creativity. We show that among rich countries, climatic demands are related to creative achievement in a reversed-U manner, whereas the relationship is linear among poor countries.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 493 - 494
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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