TY - CHAP

T1 - Organizing Creativity for Innovation

T2 - Situated Practices and Process Perspectives

AU - Svejenova, Silviya

AU - Cohendet, Patrick

AU - Schüßler, Elke

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by Emerald Publishing Limited.

PY - 2021/9/17

Y1 - 2021/9/17

N2 - This volume brings together empirical and conceptual papers that investigate the challenges of organizing creativity in the innovation journey in and across different empirical contexts. Seen as the basis for innovating new products, processes or services, organizing creativity is studied as intentional efforts that occur in teams, organizations, and fields. What creativity is, how it is defined, negotiated and recognized is hereby co-constructed with different audiences and in different economic and societal spheres. The papers in this volume extend our understanding of these 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 examines 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. Overall, the papers in this volume contribute to a situated view of creative processes in innovation which goes beyond questions of idea generation to account for dynamics of idea development, judgment, and dissemination which involve identity struggles, evaluation, and communication – processes which are at the heart of organizing for innovation.

AB - This volume brings together empirical and conceptual papers that investigate the challenges of organizing creativity in the innovation journey in and across different empirical contexts. Seen as the basis for innovating new products, processes or services, organizing creativity is studied as intentional efforts that occur in teams, organizations, and fields. What creativity is, how it is defined, negotiated and recognized is hereby co-constructed with different audiences and in different economic and societal spheres. The papers in this volume extend our understanding of these 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 examines 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. Overall, the papers in this volume contribute to a situated view of creative processes in innovation which goes beyond questions of idea generation to account for dynamics of idea development, judgment, and dissemination which involve identity struggles, evaluation, and communication – processes which are at the heart of organizing for innovation.

KW - Management studies

KW - creativity

KW - innovation

KW - organizing

KW - creative work

KW - idea journey

KW - process

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/1d6008f5-800d-3bd0-8f01-6ea56a1a9a3d/

U2 - 10.1108/S0733-558X20210000075002

DO - 10.1108/S0733-558X20210000075002

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-1-83982-875-1

T3 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations

SP - 1

EP - 16

BT - Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey

A2 - Schüßler, Elke

A2 - Cohendet, Patrick

A2 - Svejenova, Silviya

PB - Emerald Publishing Limited

ER -