Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey
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This volume brings together empirical and conceptual papers that investigate the challenges of organizing creativity in the innovation journey in and across different empirical contexts.
The articles in this volume extend our understanding of the contextualized social dynamics of organizing creativity in four directions. The first direction sheds light on the temporal dynamics of organizing creativity in artistic fields. The second direction compares creative processes in arts and science, thereby examining tensions and uncertainties in the creative process unfolding in two distinctive contexts of creativity. The third direction investigates identity struggles of creative agents in organizations with clashing roles, professional norms, and ambiguities in creativity assessment. The fourth and final direction unravels the communicative journey of ideas from pitching to feedback, revealing how ideas are challenged, enriched, and acquire meaning in communicative interaction.
Contributing to a situated view of creative processes in innovation, Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey goes beyond questions of idea generation to account for the dynamics of idea development, judgement, and dissemination – processes which are at the heart of organizing for innovation.
Organizing Creativity for Innovation: Situated Practices and Process Perspectives; Elke Schuessler, Silviya Svejenova, and Patrick Cohendet
- PART I. Temporal Dynamics of Organizing Creativity in Art Fields
- Chapter 1. Inside Out: When Ideas from the Core Are Radicalized on the Periphery; Stoyan V. Sgourev
- Chapter 2. Trajectories of Consecration: Signature Style and the Pace of Category Spanning; Giovanni Formilan, Gino Cattani, and Simone Ferriani
- Chapter 3. Arts Festivals: Configuring Creative Fields through Temporal Strategies; Candace Jones
- PART II. Comparing Creative Processes in Arts and Science: Tensions and Uncertainties
- Chapter 4. Auto-Tuned and R-Squared: Reflecting Audience Quality Evaluations in the Creative Process in Music Production and Cancer Research; Elizabeth Long Lingo and Hille C. Bruns
- Chapter 5. Organizing Uncertainty as an Asset in Creative Collaboration: A Comparison of the Music and Pharmaceutical Industries; Oliver Ibert, Gregory Jackson, Tobias Theel, and Lukas Vogelgsang
- Chapter 6. Between Anxiety and Hope? How Actors Experience Regulatory Uncertainty in Creative Processes in Music and Pharma; Leonhard Dobusch, Konstantin Hondros, Sigrid Quack, and Katharina Zangerle
- PART III. Identity Struggles of Creative Agents in Organizations
- Chapter 7. Organizational Misfits as Creative Agents of Change: The Case of Pracademics; Alice Lam
- Chapter 8. Ambiguous Zones and Identity Processes of Innovation Experts in Organizations; Rotem Rittblat and Amalya L. Oliver
- Chapter 9. Creative Identity Work in the Face of Ambiguity: Defending, Distancing, Differentiating; Heather Round
- PART IV. The Communicative Journey of Ideas
- Chapter 10. Do We Really Judge the Book by its Cover? Idea Selection During Start-Up Weekends; Guy Parmentier, Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire, and Maxime Mellard
- Chapter 11. Making Creativity, not Innovation. A Critical Reflection based on Observations from the Fashion Industry; Raimund Hasse and Judith Nyfeler
- Chapter 12. Feedback on Creative Ideas: Toward a Communicative and Creative Action Perspective; Michael Hartmann, Jochen Koch, and Matthias Wenzel
Elke Schuessler is Professor of Business Administration and head of the Institute of Organization Science at Johannes Kepler University Linz. Her research focuses on social challenges that include climate change, decent work or digitalization.
Patrick Cohendet is Professor at HEC Montréal in the International Business Department. His research interests include Theory of the firm, Economics of Innovation, Economics of Knowledge, Economics of Creativity and Knowledge Management.
Silviya Svejenova is Professor in Leadership and Innovation at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. She conducts research on multimodal and temporal aspects of creativity and innovation, with particular interest in creative industries, strategic leadership, space, and place.