Creativity at the Knowledge Frontier: The Impact of Specialization in Fast- and Slow-paced Domains*
Using the impact of the Soviet Union’s collapse on the performance of theoretical mathematicians as a natural experiment, we attempt to resolve the controversy in prior research on whether specialists or generalists have superior creative performance. While many have highlighted generalists’ advanta...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
2019
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