Creativity And Innovation In Organizational Teams

by Thompson, Leigh L.; Choi, Hoon-Seok

• ISBN13: 9780805849684
• ISBN10: 0805849688
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-02
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teamsstemmed from a conference held at the Kellogg School of Management in June 2003 covering creativity and innovation in groups and organizations. Each chapter of the book is written by an expert and covers original theory about creative processes in organizations. The organization of the text reflects a longstanding notion that creativity in the world of work is a joint outcome of three interdependent forces--individual thinking, group processes, and organizational environment. Part I explores basic cognitive mechanisms that underlie creative thinking, and includes chapters that discuss cognitive foundations of creativity, a cognitive network model of creativity that explains how and why creative solutions form in the human mind, and imports a ground-breaking concept of "creativity templates" to the study of creative idea generation in negotiation context. The second part is devoted to understanding how groups and teams in organizational settings produce creative ideas and implement innovations. Finally, Part III contains three chapters that discuss the role of social, organizational context in which creative endeavors take place. The book has a strong international mix of scholarship and includes clear business implications based on scientific research. It weds the disciplines of psychology, cognition, and business theory into one text.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	vii
About the Editors	xi
Contributors	xiii
Preface	xv
Introduction	xvii
I COGNITIVE PROCESSES OF CREATIVE THINKING
1 Empirical Studies of Creative Cognition in Idea Generation	3	(18)
Steven M. Smith, David R. Gerkens, Jami J. Shah, and Noe Vargas-Hernandez
2 Opening the Black Box of Creativity: Causal Effects in Creative Solution Generation	21	(22)
Eric L. Santanen
3 Structuring Creativity: Creative Templates in Negotiation	43	(26)
Jacob Goldenberg, Dina Nir, and Eyal Maoz
II TEAM AND GROUP DYNAMICS OF BRAINSTORMING
4 Group Brainstorming and Teamwork: Some Rules for the Road to Innovation	69	(18)
Paul B. Paulus, Toshihiko Nakui, and Vicky L. Putman
5 Membership Change in Groups: Implications for Group Creativity	87	(22)
Hoon-Seok Choi and Leigh L. Thompson
6 Explaining Psychological Safety in Innovation Teams: Organizational Culture, Team Dynamics, or Personality?	109	(28)
Amy C. Edmondson and Josephine P. Mogelof
7 Creativity and Innovation Implementation in Work Groups: The Paradoxical Role of Demands	137	(24)
Michael A. West, Claudia A. Sacramento, and Doris Fay
8 Four Principles of Group Creativity	161	(22)
Bernard A. Nijstad, Eric F. Rietzschel, and Wolfgang Stroebe
III ORGANIZATIONAL INFLUENCES OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
9 Begging, Borrowing, and Building on Ideas From the Outside to Create Pulsed Innovation Inside Teams	183	(16)
Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman
10 Bridging Old Worlds and Building New Ones: Toward a Microsociology of Creativity	199	(18)
Andrew B. Hargadon
11 Creative Associations and Entrepreneurial Opportunities	217	(18)
Cameron M. Ford
Author Index	235	(6)
Subject Index	241