Description
Book SynopsisContains five essays with commentaries and rebuttals that cover a range of topics, but in the realms of creativity and innovation. This title offers literature reviews, model developments, methodological advancements, and some data for the study of creativity and social influence, innovation and planning, and creativity and cognitive processes.
Table of ContentsSocial influence and creativity in organizations: A multi-level lens for theory, research, and practice. Social influence, creativity, and innovation: Boundaries, brackets, and non-linearity. Creativity research should be a social science. Facing ambiguity in organizational creativity research: Choices made in the mud. Planning for innovation: A multi-level perspective. Templates for innovation. Innovation as a contested terrain: Planned creativity and innovation versus emergent creativity and innovation. Constraints on innovation: Planning as a context for creativity. Creativity and cognitive processes: Multi-level linkages between individual and team cognition. Team creativity: More than the sum of its parts?. Team cognition: The importance of team process and composition for the creative problem-solving process. Beyond cognitive processes: Antecedents and influences on team cognition. Subsystem configuration: A model of strategy, context, and human resources management alignment. Linking innovation and creativity with human resources strategies and practices: A matter of fit or flexibility?. Multi-level strategic HRM: Facilitating competitive advantage through social networks and supply chains. A model of strategy, context, and human resource management alignment. A multi-level process view of new venture emergence. A multi-level process view of new-venture emergence: Impressive first step toward a model. Do levels and phases always happen together? Questions for considering the case of new-venture emergence. Recursive links affecting the dynamics of new-venture emergence. About the Authors. About the Editors. List of Contributors. Overview: Multi-level issues in creativity and innovation.
