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Selected publications 2022-24

Think Funny, Think Female: The Benefits of Humor for Women’s Influence in the Digital Age
E Miron-Spektor, J Bear, E Eliav
Academy of Management Discoveries

Understanding the Role of Gender in Humor Expression: Directions for Future Scholarship 
J Bear, E Miron-Spektor 
Current Opinion in Psychology

Culture and Creativity in Organizations: New Directions and Discoveries
E Miron-Spektor, SBF Paletz
The Oxford Handbook of Cross-Cultural Organizational Behavio

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Conceiving Opposites Together: Cultivating Paradoxical Frames and Epistemic Motivation Fosters Team Creativity
E Miron-Spektor, KJ Emich, L Argote, WK Smith
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Bright Sparks and Enquiring Minds: Differential Effects of Goal Orientation on the Creativity Trajectory
E Miron-Spektor, RD Vashdi, H Gopher
Journal of Applied Psychology

Love at First Insight: An Attachment Perspective on Early-Phase Idea Selection
M Lazar, E Miron-Spektor, J Mueller
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

From a label to a meta-theory of paradox: If we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change
J.L. Sparr, E Miron-Spektor, W Smith, M Lewis
 Academy of Management Collections

Forming entrepreneurial teams: Mixing business and friendship to create transactive memory systems for enhanced success
M Lazar, E Miron-Spektor, G Chen, B Goldfarb, M Erez, R Agarwal
Academy of Management Journal

Unlocking Creative Tensions with a Paradox Approach
M Rubin, E Miron-Spektor, J keller
Handbook of Organizational Creativity

Culture and Creativity in Organizations: New Directions and Discoveries
E Miron-Spektor, SBF Paletz
The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Organizations

Selected publications 2020-21

Digital transformation: What is new if anything? Emerging patterns and management research
G Lanzolla, A Lorenz, E Miron-Spektor, M Schilling, C Tucci
Academy of Management Discoveries

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Entrepreneurial team formation
M Lazar, E Miron-Spektor, R Agarwal, M Erez, B Goldfarb, G Chen
Academy of Management Annals

The Lived Experience of Paradox: How Individuals Navigate Tensions during the Pandemic Crisis
C Pradies, I Aust, R Bednarek, J Brandl, S Carmine, J Cheal, M.P. Cunha, M Gaim, A Keegan, J.K. Le, E Miron-Spektor, R.K. Nielson, V. Pouthier, G. Sharma, J.L. Sparr, R Vince, & J Keller, 
Journal of Management Inquiry

Collective Paradoxical Frames: Managing Tensions in Learning and Innovation
E Miron-Spektor, SBF Paletz
The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning 

You may be more original than you think: Predictable biases in self-assessment of originality
Y Sidi, I Torgovitsky, D Soibelman, E Miron-Spektor, R Ackerman
Acta Psychologica

Selected publications 2018-19

Microfoundations of organizational paradox: The problem is how we think about the problem
E Miron-Spektor, A Ingram, J Keller, WK Smith, MW Lewis
Academy of Management Journal 61 (1), 26-45

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The role of paradox theory in decision making and management research
DA Waldman, LL Putnam, E Miron-Spektor, D Siegel
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Middle ground approach to paradox: Within-and between-culture examination of the creative benefits of paradoxical frames.
AK Leung, S Liou, E Miron-Spektor, B Koh, D Chan, R Eisenberg, ...
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 114 (3), 443

How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don't Get Lost in the Shuffle
E Miron-Spektor, D Vashdi, TM Amabile, V Holzmann
Harvard Business Review

Psychological factors surrounding disagreement in multicultural design team meetings
SBF Paletz, A Sumer, E Miron-Spektor
CoDesign 14 (2), 98-114

Diversity in creative teams: Reaching across cultures and disciplines
SBF Paletz, I Pavisic, E Miron-Spektor, CC Lin
Handbook of culture and creativity: Basic processes and applied innovations 

Selected publications 2016-17

Knowledge utilization, coordination, and team performance
R Reagans, E Miron-Spektor, L Argote
Organization Science 27 (5), 1108-1124

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Humor and creativity
JB Bear, E Miron-Spektor, E Eliav
The Psychology of Humor at Work, 72-87

Looking at creativity through a paradox lens
E Miron-Spektor, M Erez
The oxford handbook of organizational paradox, 434-451

Selected publications 2014-15

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To create without losing face: The effects of face cultural logic and social‐image affirmation on creativity
E Miron‐Spektor, SBF Paletz, CC Lin
Journal of Organizational Behavior 36 (7), 919-943

A cultural lens on interpersonal conflict and creativity in multicultural environments.
SBF Paletz, E Miron-Spektor, CC Lin
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 8 (2), 237

Selected publications 2011-12

Organizational learning: From experience to knowledge
L Argote, E Miron-Spektor
Organization Science 22 (5), 1123-1137

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The effect of conformist and attentive-to-detail members on team innovation: Reconciling the innovation paradox
E Miron-Spektor, M Erez, E Naveh
Academy of Management Journal 54 (4), 740-760

Paradoxical frames and creative sparks: Enhancing individual creativity through conflict and integration
E Miron-Spektor, F Gino, L Argote
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 116 (2), 229-240

Others' anger makes people work harder not smarter: The effect of observing anger and sarcasm on creative and analytic thinking.
E Miron-Spektor, D Efrat-Treister, A Rafaeli, O Schwarz-Cohen
Journal of Applied Psychology 96 (5), 1065

Why Conformists Are a Key to Successful Innovation
E Miron-Spektor
Harvard Business Review

To drive creativity, add some conformity
E Miron-Spektor, M Erez, E Naveh
Harvard Business Review 90 (3), 30

Selected publications before 2010

First, get your feet wet: The effects of learning from direct and indirect experience on team creativity
F Gino, L Argote, E Miron-Spektor, G Todorova
Organizational behavior and human decision processes 111 (2), 102-115

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Do personal characteristics and cultural values that promote innovation, quality, and efficiency compete or complement each other?
E Miron, M Erez, E Naveh
Journal of organizational behavior 25 (2), 175-199

When and why prior task experience fosters team creativity
F Gino, G Todorova, E Miron-Spektor, L Argote
Creativity in groups

The effects of anger in the workplace: When, where, and why observing anger enhances or hinders performance
E Miron-Spektor, A Rafaeli
Research in personnel and human resources management 28 (153-178)

Contact

Ella Miron-Spektor

INSEAD Europe Campus
Boulevard de Constance
77305 Fontainebleau Cedex
France

[email protected]