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(Supervisor Maria Chiarvesio)

The Role of Work-Life Balance for Creativity and Innovation

My Ph.D research project aims to investigate the relationship between work-life balance (WLB), creativity, and innovation, shedding light on how WLB impacts creativity and innovation. The necessity to balance work with other spheres of life is one of the main challenges and necessities for individuals and organizations. At the same time, creativity and innovation are processes that cannot be undermined since they form the basis of a company's competitive advantage and are crucial factors in today’s challenging and dynamic work environment.

Thus, my Ph.D thesis revolves around the awareness that the growing importance of work-life balance in the current context is combined with the organizations’ impossibility to get away from creativity and innovation. The Ph.D thesis is developed in three papers: a systematic literature review and two empirical investigations.