Creative Action in Organizations
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Creative Action in Organizations: Ivory Tower Visions and Real World Voices


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A strong point in this book is its opening extensive review of creativity in organizations and professions. . . including helpful tabulations of articles that identify the motives, expectations, emotions, means, and opportunities that lead to creative acts. . . . it can provide valuable insights and encouragement to scholars and practitioners who are concerned with developing and tapping creativity in organizations. . . . Management professors and graduate students will find the book helpful. . . . --G. David Hughes in Journal of Product Innovation Management "This book definitely will be appropriate for class use in any setting focused on creativity in organizations. Presumably, these would be specialized upper-division, MBA, or Ph.D. electives. If you are interested in the topic of creativity in organizations, this is the book you must read. It is on the frontiers, and it provides a beacon for future scholarly progress on this topic because of its emphasis on how the organizational setting affects the creative process in the world of work." --Lyman Porter, University of California, Irvine "The book is itself a creative approach to creativity. The editors have attracted a talented and well-respected group of academic contributors. The message that we should abandon the romantic but flawed notion that creativity is principally the product of extraordinary individual acts is delivered forcefully, as is the companion notion that organizational contexts are the real seedbeds of creative behavior." --John R. Kimberly, Henry Bower Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania "This is one of the better collections of information about creativity because it is data based, and it provides a useful comparison and contrast of conceptual and practical aspects. By clearly describing the benefits and problems associated with the topics, Creative Action in Organizations obviously practices what it preaches. I would recommend that it be used as a textbook for a graduate-level business course, particularly for an MBA program. In addition, I also recommend that it be used as a text reference for industrial ′training & development′ programs targeted at teaching employees how to develop new businesses, improve existing processes, or become better leaders (viz., corporate leadership development programs)." --Tom Wojcik, Manager, Office of Innovation, Hoechst Celanese Corporation Between the trade deficit, mergers, and the recession, the topic of creativity in organizations has become one of increasing importance. How does a company retool or refine its product with foreign and, often, less costly competition? How does human resources find creative solutions to budgeting, product development, marketing, and training? With pithy and engaging chapters from leading researchers and figures in business, government, and academia, Creative Action in Organizations explores the factors that are critical to the development and promotion of creativity to develop a revised view that is grounded in experience. This volume begins with a literature review (written as a mystery to be solved), followed by essays from researchers (Part II) and practitioners (Part III). Using the chapters as "data," the editors conclude with a content-analysis that presents a look at the most significant themes and offers a framework for conceptualizing creativity in organizations. This profound and fascinating volume is essential for students, professionals, and researchers in management and organization studies, public administration, public policy, evaluation, and psychology, as well as libraries in the above areas.

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: CONTEMPLATING CREATIVE ACTION IN ORGANIZATIONS Multiple Visions and Multiple Voices - Cameron M Ford and Dennis A Gioia Academic and Practitioner Conceptions of Creativity in Organizations Creativity is a Mystery - Cameron M Ford Clues from the Investigators′ Notebooks PART TWO: IVORY TOWER VISIONS Boogie down Wonderland - Jay A Conger Creativity and Visionary Leadership Managing Creativity - Richard W Woodman Creativity and Entrepreneurship - Harry Nystrom Creative Values and Creative Visions in Teams at Work - Michael A West Discovering the Unknowable, Managing the Unmanageable - Teresa M Amabile Individual Creativity and Organizational Innovation - Nigel King An Uncertain Link Creativity as Heroic - Dean Keith Simonton Risk, Success, Failure, and Acclaim Creativity - Daniel J Brass It′s All in Your Social Network The Role of Collaboration in Creativity - Nirma Kl Sethia How Organizations Channel Creativity - William H Starbuck Promoting Creativity in Organizations - Edwin A Locke and Shelley A Kirkpatrick The Many Facets of Creativity - Peter J Frost Is Your Creative Organization Innovative? - Fariborz Damanpour Training Creativity in the Corporation - Robert W Weisberg The View from the Psychological Laboratory Q: Does Feedback Enhance or Inhibit Creativity in Organizations? A: Yes! - James L Farr Everything New under the Gun - Connie J G Gersick Creativity and Deadlines Creativity Training and Hemispheric Function - Craig C Lundberg Bringing the Left Brain Back In Management of Cultural Innovations - Dag Björkengren Why No One Really Wants Creativity - Barry M Staw Shifting the Focus from Individual to Organizational Creativity - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Keith Sawyer Ten Tips toward Creativity in the Workplace - Robert J Sternberg and Todd I Lubart Creative Post-Processing - Kristian Kreiner and Majken Schultz On Making Turbulence Valuable Creativity and the Aesthetics of Imperfection - Karl E Weick PART THREE: REAL WORLD VOICES The Changing Face of Creativity - F Ben Jones Corporate America - Pedro Cuatrecasas Creativity Held Hostage Coaching Your Way to Creativity - Russell C Ford Creating a Creativity Revolution - Delbert H Jacobs Creativity in a Large Company - Alexander MacLachlan All You Have to Do is Ask for It Creativity by Decree - A New Approach - Isaac R Barpal Creativity and Innovation - Philip X Masciantonio Keys for Preventing Environmental Gridlock Creativity in Government - Wellington E Webb The Challenge of Reinventing State Government - John Engler Creativity Today - George Heard Are You Creating Solutions or Problems? - R Larry Wuench Organizing for Innovation - Thoralf Ulrik Qvale From Individual Creativity to Learning Networks Principle-Based Creativity - Timothy F Price Prompting Individual Initiative in Large Organizations Membranes for Gas Separation - Walter L Robb A Case Study in Creativity Why Do You Have to Go `Off-Campus′ to Get Creative? - Norman P Findley The Pro-Team - Karl-Erik Sveiby Solving the Dilemma of Organized Creativity in Production Fostering Creativity in Large Organizations - Carole F St Mark Creativity at Woolworth Corporation - C Jackson Gray Acquiring and Managing Creative Talent - Norman E Johnson Creativity through Self-Appraisal - F E Bailey and James R Bailey Organizing for Creativity - Terry O′Connor Ideas Dancing in the Human Being - Robert Michael Burnside Gee Whiz! - So What? - Alan G Chynoweth PART FOUR: UNDERSTANDING AND INFLUENCING CREATIVITY IN ORGANIZATIONS Contrasts and Convergences in Creativity - Dennis A Gioia Themes in Academic and Practitioner Views Striking Inspirational Sparks and Fanning Creative Flames - Cameron M Ford A Multi-Domain Model of Creative Action Taking Guidelines for Creative Action Taking in Organizations - Cameron M Ford and Dennis A Gioia


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780803953505
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 680 gr
  • ISBN-10: 080395350X
  • Publisher Date: 07 Sep 1995
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 424
  • Sub Title: Ivory Tower Visions and Real World Voices


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