By Tudor Rickards

Creativity will be as tough to outline because it is to accomplish. it is a complicated and compelling zone of research and this quantity is completely poised to discover how creativity may be larger understood, and used, in more than a few contexts. The e-book not just centres on creativity in wider organizational conception, but additionally defines the stipulations during which creativity can flourish, and assesses how the modern enterprise setting has an impression on artistic solutions.

The quantity grounds the concept that of creativity in a legitimate theoretical framework and explores problems with sensible and theoretical end result overlaying various issues, including:

  • innovation and entrepreneurship
  • creativity and design
  • environmental influences
  • knowledge management
  • meta-theories of creativity
  • personal creativity
  • structured interventions.

Comprising contributions written by way of an strangely large choice of prime creativity students, The Routledge significant other to Creativity is an insightful and leading edge source. it truly is a necessary buy for someone with an curiosity in creativity from a enterprise, psychology or layout perspective.

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Gronhaug and G. Kaufmann (eds), Innovation: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective, Oslo, Norway: Norwegian University Press. Moorman, C. S. (1998) Organizational improvisation and organizational memory, Academy of Management Review, 23: 698–723. Nettl, B. (1998) Introduction: an art neglected in scholarship, in: B. Nettl and M. Russell (eds), In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 23 COLIN M. G. (1972) Creativity in the person who will never produce anything original and useful: the concept of creativity as a normally distributed trait, American Psychologist, 27: 717–727.

28 C R E AT I V I T Y A N D S O U N D : T H E A G O N Y O F T H E S E N S E S Textuality The conflictual relationship between sound and vision is also prominent in language theory (Havelock 1986; Ong 1962). Speaking and listening both pertain to sound. On the other hand, to write something down is to resort to vision. Speech and writing are the polar equivalents of sound and vision in the realm of language. In the same way that McLuhan claimed a kind of privileging of sound over vision, there seems to be an asymmetry in the relationship between speech and writing.

V. and Kamoche, K. (1999) Organizational improvisation: what, when, how and why, International Journal of Management Review, 1: 299–341. A. K. (1999) Multilevel theorizing about creativity in organizations: a sensemaking perspective, Academy of Management Review, 24: 286–307. Eisenhardt, K. N. (1995) Accelerating adaptive processes: product innovation in the global computer industry, Administrative Science Quarterly, 40: 84–110. M. (1996) A theory of individual creative action in multiple social domains, Academy of Management Review, 21: 1112–1142.

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