TY  - JOUR
A1  - Eggers, Fabian
A1  - Lovelace, Kathi J.
A1  - Kraft, Frederik
T1  - Fostering creativity through critical thinking: The case of business start-up simulations
JF  - Creativity and innovation management
N2  - Research suggests a positive link between critical thinking and creativity. However, this relationship has not been measured in an empirical study. This study aims to explore whether critical thinking can serve to enhance creativity and whether creativity positively mediates the relationship between critical thinking and business performance. In this study, we analyse these relationships within the entrepreneurial context of a web-based business start-up simulation. We examined data from 26 teams of three to four senior business students and found partial support for our hypotheses. Critical thinking positively influenced creativity, measured as the total number of unique product designs. Creativity (unique product designs) also positively mediated the link between critical thinking and performance. This effect, however, did not exist when creativity was assessed through advertisement designs. This research contributes to entrepreneurship and innovation management by demonstrating the importance of critical thinking as a basis for creativity and testing this relationship in a business start-up simulation context.
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12225
SN  - 0963-1690
SN  - 1467-8691
VL  - 26
SP  - 266
EP  - 276
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -