Loose purse strings, loose cultures: How resource increase affects cultural tightness-looseness and creativity in large and small organizations

• Main Author: CHU, Caleb Chun Kwan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: resources; cultural tightness-looseness; creativity; incremental creativity; radical creativity; organisational size; teams; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Sociology of Culture
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/577; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/etd_coll/article/1575/viewcontent/Caleb_Chu_Dissertation___Final.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

For over a decade, cultural tightness-looseness (TL) has established itself as a culture construct that is useful in diverse contexts at multiple levels. While most TL research has focused on TL consequences, less attention has been paid to TL antecedents. This dissertation proposes resource increas...