Organizational Creative Capabilities

1The Foundations of Organizational Creative Capabilities

Originating from the RBV (resource-based view) theory, the concept of organizational capability is of great interest when studying organizational creativity. Currently, organizational capability is the source of strategic advantage, and the organization is considered as a combination of resources, skills, processes and routines. Thus, anchoring organizational creativity in an RBV approach, centered on capabilities, makes it possible to adopt a level of analysis that is both organizational and strategic, and to identify the factors, processes and routines that make creativity a true organizational capability that can be maintained and evolve according to the constraints of the strategic environment. We therefore propose to consider organizational creativity as an organizational capability. Firstly, we will specify the notion of organizational capability in order to determine its different components and to draw lessons for defining organizational creative capabilities. Secondly, we will identify the factors likely to promote the development of creative capabilities. In the third part, we will lay the foundations of the routines that constitute organizational creative capabilities.

1.1. Organizational capabilities

The concept of organizational capability stems from the emergence of the strategic analysis paradigm, the resource-based view (RBV), which takes into account not only the economic environment of companies, but ...