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This study proposed a new individual creativity model that was divided into five main constructs: creative self-efficacy, IT support, individual knowledge, individual absorptive capacity, and individual creativity. We assumed that creative self-efficacy, IT support, and individual knowledge positively affect individual creativity through the mediating effect of individual absorptive capacity. Additionally, we examined the moderating effects of subjective well-being by dividing the sample into a high subjective well-being group and a low subjective well-being group. After collecting 606 valid questionnaires from IT companies in South Korea, we applied a structural equation modeling technique to analyze the data. Empirical results reveal the following: (1) creative self-efficacy, IT support, and individual knowledge influence individual creativity through individual absorptive capacity; and (2) subjective well-being moderates the relationship between the two constructs of the research model but does not moderate the influence of creative self-efficacy on individual absorptive capacity.
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Seo, Y.W., Chae, S.W., Lee, K.C. (2011). The Impact of Creative Self-efficacy, IT Support, and Knowledge on Individual Creativity through Absorptive Capacity. In: Kim, Th., et al. U- and E-Service, Science and Technology. UNESST 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 264. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27210-3_22
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