The Routledge Companion To Creativity

by Tudor Rickards:

• ISBN13: 9780415773171
• ISBN10: 0415773172
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Comprising contributions written by a wide array of leading creativity scholars, The Routledge Companion to Creativity is an exciting collection of articles that assesses contemporary issues in creativity research and practice, and identifies key themes and trends.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	p. viii
List of contributors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Companion to Creativity: a synoptic overview	p. 3
Creativity and design	p. 11
Creativity and design
Creativity, improvisation and organizations	p. 13
Creativity and sound: the agony of the senses	p. 25
Unleashing the creative potential of design in business	p. 37
Space to adapt: workplaces, creative behaviour and organizational memetics	p. 46
Environmental actors and influences	p. 59
Environmental influences
Creating or destroying vusiness value: understanding the opportunities and the limits of a win-win collaboration	p. 61
The style/involvement model of consumer innovation	p. 71
Creativity and konwledge relationships in the creative industries	p. 88
Leading for renewal: the value of positive turbulence	p. 99
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Evolutionary models of innovation and creativity	p. 109
Creativity and entrepreneurship	p. 119
Social networks and creativity: combining xpertise in complex innovations	p. 132
Creativity and knowledge	p. 147
Knowledge management
Knowledge management and the management of creativity	p. 149
Creating organizational knowledge dialogically: an outline of a theory	p. 160
Meta-theories of creativity
Computers and creativity: models and applications	p. 179
Relationship creativity in collectives at multiple levels	p. 189
Creativity and economics: current perspectives	p. 206
Deconstructing creativity	p. 222
Idea activity in our nations and workplaces	p. 232
The creative individual	p. 245
Personal creativity
Genius, creativity and leadership	p. 247
Intellectual styles and creativity	p. 256
Creativity and personality	p. 267
The thinking of creative leaders: outward focus, inward focus and integration	p. 279
Creativity: a systems perspective	p. 292
Change-oriented leadership behaviour: a consequence of post-bureauratic organisations?	p. 302
Structured interventions
Prototyping processes that affect organizational creativity	p. 317
Creative problem solving: past, present and future	p. 327
Thinking outside the box: Edward de Bono's lateral thinking	p. 338
Computer-supported idea generation	p. 351
Integration	p. 361
Integration: prospects for future journeys	p. 363
Index	p. 371
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