No Individual Creativity, No Organizational Innovation

Individual and Organizational Creativity

Where does innovation end and where do we begin? Innovation is a complicated and continuing process that demands individual and organizational creativity. To find refreshing authentic originals we need to rediscover purpose, meaning and identity. As individuals, our ability to communicate ‘the potentially creative’ fuels the organization’s innovative capacity. This paper investigates the set of...

No . 18 Cognitive Processes in Creativity

"Creative" is a word with many uses. Sometimes it is used to describe the potential of a person to produce creative works whether they have produced any work as yet or not. Sometimes it is used to describe every-day behaviors as, for example, when a nursery school curriculum is said to encourage creative activities such as drawing or story telling. In this essay, I will restrict the meaning of ...

No . 9 Independent Boards and Innovation ∗

Much research has suggested that independent boards of directors are more effective in reducing agency costs and improving firm governance. Less clear, however, is how independent boards influence innovation and innovation search strategies. Relying on regulatory changes that required shareholders to appoint a majority of independent directors, we demonstrate how the transition to independent b...

Why Innovation Theories Make no Sense

The Role of Leadership and Management in Organizational Innovation and Creativity

Goals: In today’s organizational world, Creative Directors, Creative Organizations and Creative Workers are the sides of the creative triangle which do not get the meaning without any creativity or innovation. The appropriate organizational structure and support and encouragement of leaders and managers are two essential elements in creativity, and contexts and conditions of creativity is ...