Creative Action in Organizations Ivory Toer Visions and Real World Voices [Hardcover]

Creativity in organizations has become an issue of great importance, but how does a company encourage personnel to find creative solutions to budgeting, product development, marketing and training? With engaging contributions from leading academics and professionals, this book explores the key factors that are critical to the development and promotion of creativity in any organization.Creativity in organizations has become an issue of great importance, but how does a company encourage personnel to find creative solutions to budgeting, product development, marketing and training? With engaging contributions from leading academics and professionals, this book explores the key factors that are critical to the development and promotion of creativity in any organization.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
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