THE STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF CREATIVITY, CONFLICT AND THEIR EFFECT ON CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURS’ CAREER ACHIEVEMENT IN KURDISTAN PROVINCE, IRAN

Davoud Samari, Mohammad Ali Moradi

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Creativity analysis refers to the difference of people in perception, behavior, problem solving, decision making and making relationship with each other while conflict management represents people’s behavior, responding to the inter-personal conflicts though few studies have been conducted about investigating the relationships between entrepreneurs’ creativity analysis, conflict management style and career achievement in the section of creative analysis. To test the related hypothesis to a sample of 251 creative entrepreneurs in Kurdistan Province, structural equations modeling has been used. The results show that strengthening the creativity of creative entrepreneurs, mediated by conflict management style, and is effective on career achievement. According to the cognitive psychological theories and conflict management, the lost rings between entrepreneurship cognition and conflict management in the field of entrepreneurship will be specified in this study.

 

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