UCL School of Management

James Berry

Lecturer (assistant professor)
Director - The UCL MBA
Phone number
(0)20 3108 6020
(internal 56020)
Office location
Level 50, 1 Canada Square
Rm N53
Research projects

Motivation and Creativity

This project is about explorations of why and how people are motivated to be creative at work.

Improving the quality of management research

This project is focused on improving the quality of management research by strengthening the link between theories and empirical data.
Selected publications
Harvey, S., & Berry, J. (2022). Toward a meta-theory of creativity forms: How novelty and usefulness shape creativity. Academy of Management Review. doi:10.5465/amr.2020.0110 [link]
Berry, J. W., & Sanchez, J. (2019). Perceiving entrepreneurs: Job title comparisons in warmth and competence. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 12, e00145. doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2019.e00145 [link]
Berry, J. W., & Grant, A. M. (2011). The Necessity of Others is The Mother of Invention: Intrinsic and Prosocial Motivations, Perspective Taking, and Creativity. Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), 54 (1), 73-96. doi:10.5465/amj.2011.59215085 [link]
Berry, J., & Edwards, J. R. (2010). The presence of something or the absence of nothing: Increasing theoretical precision in management research. Organizational Research Methods, 13, 668-689. doi:10.1177/1094428110380467 [link]

Link to the publication’s UCL Discovery page