Studying Organizational Creativity as Process: Fluidity or Duality?
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in: Creativity and Innovation Management, Jahrgang 26, Nr. 1, 01.03.2017, S. 5-16.
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T1 - Studying Organizational Creativity as Process
T2 - Fluidity or Duality?
AU - Fortwengel, Johann
AU - Schüßler, Elke
AU - Sydow, Jörg
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - This paper contributes to process studies on organizational creativity by developing two competing research agendas. The first perspective, the ‘becoming’ view, depicts creativity as a constant flow of activity that crystallizes every once in a while in unpredictable moments of creativity. The second perspective, the ‘practice’ view, understands creativity as a practised social process, in which structures play the important role of both enabling and constraining individual agents in pursuing creativity as a collective phenomenon. We compare and contrast these two theoretical perspectives, which are based on different process ontologies, and discuss their methodological implications. We argue that the practice perspective offers particular promise, because it allows us to address the important yet paradoxical question of how creativity may be organized and managed.
AB - This paper contributes to process studies on organizational creativity by developing two competing research agendas. The first perspective, the ‘becoming’ view, depicts creativity as a constant flow of activity that crystallizes every once in a while in unpredictable moments of creativity. The second perspective, the ‘practice’ view, understands creativity as a practised social process, in which structures play the important role of both enabling and constraining individual agents in pursuing creativity as a collective phenomenon. We compare and contrast these two theoretical perspectives, which are based on different process ontologies, and discuss their methodological implications. We argue that the practice perspective offers particular promise, because it allows us to address the important yet paradoxical question of how creativity may be organized and managed.
KW - Management studies
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U2 - 10.1111/caim.12187
DO - 10.1111/caim.12187
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85013434388
VL - 26
SP - 5
EP - 16
JO - Creativity and Innovation Management
JF - Creativity and Innovation Management
SN - 0963-1690
IS - 1
ER -