Most often understood as the generation of novel and useful ideas their implementation, research on creativity innovation has mushroomed in recent years. Although these studies provided insights into how organizations can enhance both phenomena, there is a growing consensus literature suggesting that rather than inherently beneficial, are fact ripe with tensions competing demands. These may put...

Innovative organisations need creative employees who generate new ideas for product or process innovation. This paper presents a conceptual framework for the effect of personal, social-organisational and physical factors on employee creativity. Based on this framework, an instrument to analyse the extent to which the work environment enhances creativity is developed. This instrument was applied...

Innovative behavior is mostly studied theoretically, e.g., in models of patent races, and empirically, e.g., by using R&D or patent data. This research, however, is only poorly informed about the psychological tradition of creativity research. Our study is an attempt to experimentally collect behavioral data revealing in how far creativity, analytical skills, personality traits and innovation g...

this paper is composed based on the assumption that in order to reach creativity in design, methods of meaning creation and new concepts in humanities should be considered as important as methods of creativity in technical viewpoints. authors claim that lack of fruitful discussion and dialog between humanities and technical science in design had generated a problematic obstacle to creativity in...

Team working offers a powerful and ubiquitous strategy for managing organizational change, and team innovation is often the manifestation of teams’ efforts to cope successfully with the changes in their work environments. Developing team innovation will enhance an organization’s ability to redirect and focus resources effectively, appropriately and more quickly than its competitors, because it ...

IntroductionIn his 2004 book, The Medici Effect, Francis Johansson describes how creativity and innovation emerge when new ideas are begotten of existing (Johansson, 2004). As bounce off one another, they sometimes stick form combinations, these recombinant generate better ideas. When a person steps into the intersection disciplines or

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have revolutionized the way companies are using information technology in their businesses. ERP was created in an effort to streamline business processes and has proven to be successful in many operations. Unfortunately, not all ERP implementations have met expectations. One way that businesses may be able to increase success rates is to embrace creati...

This cognitive-historical study describes three cases in which business innovators created original ideas for innovation. The paper compares business creativity and Thagard’s model of creativity in science and technology. By virtue of this comparison, we outline a new approach that provides an account of the importance of chance discovery and autonoetic representation in economic innovation. Du...