The value and importance of creativity has been well established in the business world. The effective fostering of creativity, however, remains a somewhat elusive goal for most organizations. Using the context of product design, we examine three factors that are likely to have an important...

In designing print ads, one of the decisions the advertiser must make is which color(s) to use as executional cues in the ad. Typically, color decisions are based on intuition and anecdotal evidence. To provide guidelines for these decisions, this research proposes and tests a conceptual...