Fostering Creativity in Digital Group Work

Since 2021, Pia has been working as a research assistant in the Department of Business and Information Management at Jacobs University Bremen and as a doctoral student at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). Her dissertation focuses on the topic of creative collaboration in virtual teams. She has a Master's degree in psychology and interdisciplinary knowledge from the fields of social and organizational psychology, business informatics and management. She is a business psychologist and strives for a people-oriented design of work.

Xingyue Yang, M.A., is a Research Associate at the Department of Business Administration and Information Management at the Jacobs University Bremen and PhD Candidate at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). She is the project coordinator for the Education Beyond Boundries (B3) research project. Her research focuses are creativity in virtual teams, organizational creativity, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. She has an academic background in Media and Communication Science.

Christoph Lattemann is Professor of Business Administration and Information Management at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. His research encompasses the two major global trends: Digital Transformation and Globalization. He is the founder and director of the Design Thinking Lab at Jacobs University. The major part of his research on Innovation and Design Thinking deals with the adoption of innovative technologies in strategic management to establish new entrepreneurial opportunities such as IT-based business models for services and new ways to interact, collaborate and innovate. He held Visiting Scholar positions at Harvard University, JFK School of Governance, Stanford University and Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam. He has published 14 books and more than 300 articles.

Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Information Management, University of Braunschweig/Germany The digital transformation allows people to participate in shaping their environment more easily than ever before. Together with ICT, this becomes the concept of Smart Participation. In his research Felix is concerned with the design of digital support systems for Smart Participation. This is characterized by its collaborative structure built on aspects of bottom-up participation. He applies collaborative and participatory research methods and further develops existing process models towards a more meaningful stakeholder integration. In the context of creative virtual collaboration, he focuses on how collaboration is actually characterized and how collaborative behavior can be fostered.

Bjørn-Tore Flåten is an Associate Professor at the University of Agder (UiA), Norway. Currently, Flåten is serving as the Head of Department of Management and as the Vice Dean for the School of Business and Law. Flåten is also heading the university's Centre for Entrepreneurship, where he seeks to expand and promote an entrepreneurial mindset. His research interests revolve around strategic management of knowledge work and entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on knowledge sharing and Internet-enabled collaboration within and beyond the boundaries of the firm.

Lahtinen serves as an advisor on co-creation processes and social innovation at UiA CoLAB, University of Agder, Norway. She is also a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests include transformation and learning in the world of work and organizations, and interorganizational collaboration. She is an experienced researcher and has worked on several major research projects in health and social care, and criminal justice. Her expertise lies in qualitative researchmethods and in the field of cultural-historical activity theory and participatory methods, particularly the Change Laboratory method.

Raoul's research lies on the intersection of Technology, Neuroscience and Creativity. As a researcher at Jacobs University's lab for information management and design thinking, he studies how constraints affect creative collaboration in virtual environments. He is a member of the German Society for System Dynamics and visiting lecturer at Northwestern University. Raoul studied Systems Engineering, Informatics and Integrated Design in Bremen and Graz. As the founder of an award-winning agency for human-centered design and a training platform for hybrid teams and organizations (helloabsent.com), Raoul has worked with leaders and teams in Ministries, SMEs and large corporations in sectors like Media, IT and Energy.

Øystein Tønnessen is a PhD Candidate in Management at the School of Business and Law, University of Agder in Norway, as well as an Advisor at Egde Consulting. His research interests include creativity, innovation, remote work, hybrid work, coworking spaces, digitalization, and digital interaction. He has an educational background in public administration, organization studies, economics, and music. As an entrepreneur and project manager, he has been involved in companies within the conference and event sector as well as the coworking industry.