Team creativity: Creative self-efficacy, creative collective efficacy and their determinants

This article presents an integrative model of creative self-efficacy and creative collective efficacy. This model investigates the influence of creative self-efficacy and its determinants (knowledge gained through experience and by observation, verbal encouragements from a third party, and emotional activation) as well as the influence of social proximity on creative collective efficacy. In addition, the predictive validity of creative collective efficacy is studied using perceived originality of teams’ creative outcomes. The results confirm the proposed model, including the hypothesized hierarchy of creative self-efficacy determinants. The existence of a quadratic relationship between social proximity and creative collective efficacy, and the partially mediating role of creative self-efficacy between its determinants and creative collective efficacy are also shown.