Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsOrganizing 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
