Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey

Elke Schuessler is Professor of Business Administration and head of the Institute of Organization Science at Johannes Kepler University Linz. Her research focuses on social challenges that include climate change, decent work or digitalization.Patrick Cohendet is Professor at HEC Montréal in the International Business Department. His research interests include Theory of the firm, Economics of Innovation, Economics of Knowledge, Economics of Creativity and Knowledge Management.Silviya Svejenova is Professor in Leadership and Innovation at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. She conducts research on multimodal and temporal aspects of creativity and innovation, with particular interest in creative industries, strategic leadership, space, and place.

• Organizing Creativity for Innovation: Situated Practices and Process Perspectives; Elke Schuessler, Silviya Svejenova, and Patrick CohendetPART I. Temporal Dynamics of Organizing Creativity in Art FieldsChapter 1. Inside Out: When Ideas from the Core Are Radicalized on the Periphery; Stoyan V. SgourevChapter 2. Trajectories of Consecration: Signature Style and the Pace of Category Spanning; Giovanni Formilan, Gino Cattani, and Simone FerrianiChapter 3. Arts Festivals: Configuring Creative Fields through Temporal Strategies; Candace JonesPART II. Comparing Creative Processes in Arts and Science: Tensions and UncertaintiesChapter 4. Auto-Tuned and R-Squared: Reflecting Audience Quality Evaluations in the Creative Process in Music Production and Cancer Research; Elizabeth Long Lingo and Hille C. BrunsChapter 5. Organizing Uncertainty as an Asset in Creative Collaboration: A Comparison of the Music and Pharmaceutical Industries; Oliver Ibert, Gregory Jackson, Tobias Theel, and Lukas VogelgsangChapter 6. Between Anxiety and Hope? How Actors Experience Regulatory Uncertainty in Creative Processes in Music and Pharma; Leonhard Dobusch, Konstantin Hondros, Sigrid Quack, and Katharina ZangerlePART III. Identity Struggles of Creative Agents in OrganizationsChapter 7. Organizational Misfits as Creative Agents of Change: The Case of Pracademics; Alice LamChapter 8. Ambiguous Zones and Identity Processes of Innovation Experts in Organizations; Rotem Rittblat and Amalya L. OliverChapter 9. Creative Identity Work in the Face of Ambiguity: Defending, Distancing, Differentiating; Heather RoundPART IV. The Communicative Journey of IdeasChapter 10. Do We Really Judge the Book by its Cover? Idea Selection During Start-Up Weekends; Guy Parmentier, Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire, and Maxime MellardChapter 11. Making Creativity, not Innovation. A Critical Reflection based on Observations from the Fashion Industry; Raimund Hasse and Judith NyfelerChapter 12. Feedback on Creative Ideas: Toward a Communicative and Creative Action Perspective; Michael Hartmann, Jochen Koch, and Matthias Wenzel