The Routledge Companion to Creativity
1st Edition
Published on 19. November 2008
400 pages
978-0-203-88884-1 (ISBN)
Description
Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve. This is a complex and compelling area of study and this volume is perfectly poised to explore how creativity can be better understood, and used, in a range of contexts. The book not only centres on creativity in wider organizational theory, but also defines the conditions in which creativity can flourish, and assesses how the contemporary business environment has an impact on creative solutions.
The volume grounds the concept of creativity in a sound theoretical framework and explores issues of practical and theoretical consequence covering a range of themes, including:
- innovation and entrepreneurship
- creativity and design
- environmental influences
- knowledge management
- meta-theories of creativity
- personal creativity
- structured interventions.
Comprising contributions written by an unusually wide array of leading creativity scholars, The Routledge Companion to Creativity is an insightful and cutting edge resource. It is an essential purchase for anyone with an interest in creativity from a business, psychology or design perspective.
The volume grounds the concept of creativity in a sound theoretical framework and explores issues of practical and theoretical consequence covering a range of themes, including:
- innovation and entrepreneurship
- creativity and design
- environmental influences
- knowledge management
- meta-theories of creativity
- personal creativity
- structured interventions.
Comprising contributions written by an unusually wide array of leading creativity scholars, The Routledge Companion to Creativity is an insightful and cutting edge resource. It is an essential purchase for anyone with an interest in creativity from a business, psychology or design perspective.
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Tudor Rickards | Mark A. Runco | Susan Moger
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Tudor Rickards is Professor of Creativity at Manchester Business School, UK. He is founding co-editor (with Susan Moger) of the journal Creativity and Innovation Management. His extensive publications include Dilemmas of Leadership, published by Routledge in 2006.
Mark A. Runco is E. Paul Torrance Endowed Professor of Creative Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. He is also a Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business. He has published extensively and is editor of the Creativity Research Journal.
Susan Moger is a Senior Fellow in Leadership at Manchester Business School, UK. She is founding co-editor of the journal Creativity and Innovation Management and has written a number of books, including the Handbook for Creative Team Leaders, written with Tudor Rickards and published by Gower in 1999.
Mark A. Runco is E. Paul Torrance Endowed Professor of Creative Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. He is also a Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business. He has published extensively and is editor of the Creativity Research Journal.
Susan Moger is a Senior Fellow in Leadership at Manchester Business School, UK. She is founding co-editor of the journal Creativity and Innovation Management and has written a number of books, including the Handbook for Creative Team Leaders, written with Tudor Rickards and published by Gower in 1999.
Content
Part 1: Introduction 1. The Companion to Creativity: A Synoptic Overview (Tudor Rickards, Mark A. Runco and Susan Moger) Part 2: Creativity and Design Theme 1: Creativity and Design 2. Creativity, Improvisation and Organizations (Colin M. Fisher and Teresa Amabile) 3. Creativity and Sound: The Agony of the Senses (Richard Coyne) 4. Unleashing the Creative Potential of Design in Business (Margaret Bruce) 5. Space to Adapt: Workplaces, Creativity behaviour and Organizational Memetics (Ilfryn Price) Part 3: Environmental Actors and Influences Theme 2: Environmental Influences 6. Creating or Destroying Business Value: Understanding the Opportunities and the Limits of a Win-Win Collaboration (Andrew Cox) 7. The Style/Involvement Model of Consumer Innovation (Gordon Foxall and Victoria James) 8. Creativity and Knowledge Relationships in the Creative Industries (Paul Jeffcutt) 9. Leading for Renewal: The Value of Positive Turbulence (Stanley S. Gryskiewicz) Theme 3: Innovation and Entrepreneurship 10. Evolutionary Models of Innovation and Creativity (Colin Martindale) 11. Creativity and Entrepreneurship (Mathew Manimala) 12. Social Networks and Creativity: Combining Expertise in Complex Innovations (Arent Greve) Part 4: Creativity and Knowledge Theme 4: Knowledge Management 13. Knowledge Management and the Management of Creativity (Geir Kaufmann and Mark A. Runco) 14. Creating Organizational Knowledge Dialogically: An Outline of a Theory (Haridimos Tsoukas) Theme 5: Metatheories of Creativity 15. Computers and Creativity: Models and Applications (Margaret Boden) 16. Relationship Creativity in Collectives at Multiple Levels (Subrata Chakrabarty and Richard W. Woodman) 17. Creativity and Economics: Current Perspectives (Isaac Getz and Todd Lubart) 18. Deconstructing Creativity (Alf Rehn and Christian De Cock) 19. Idea Activity in Our Nations and Workplaces (Glenn Rothberg) Part 5: The Creative Individual Theme 6: Personal Creativity 20. Genius, Creativity and Leadership (Dean Keith Simonton) 21. Intellectual Styles and Creativity (Li-fang Zhang and Robert J. Sternberg) 22. Creativity and Personality (Stephen J. Guastello) 23. The Thinking of Creative Leaders: Outward Focus, Inward Focus and Integration (Michael D. Mumford, Cristina L. Byrne and Amanda S. Shipman) 24. Creativity: A Systems Perspective (Seana Moran) 25. Change Oriented Leadership Behaviour: A Consequence of Post-Bureaucratic Organizations? (Jouko Arvonen) Theme 7: Structured Interventions 26. Prototyping Processes that Affect Organizational Creativity (Cameron Ford) 27. Creative Problem-Solving: Past, Present and Future (Gerard Puccio and John Cabra) 28. Thinking Outside the Box: Lateral Thinking as an Educational Innovation (Sandra Dingli) 29. Computer Supported Idea Generation (Rene Ziegler and Michael Diehl) Part 6: Integration 30. Integration: Prospects for Future Journeys (Mark A. Runco, Tudor Rickards and Susan Moger)
