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Exploring enablers of internal knowledge dissemination for boundary‐spanning industrial PhD students Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ehab Abu Sa'a, Anna Yström
Industrial PhD students, affiliating to industrial firms and academic institutions, hold unique boundary‐spanning positions as they engage in knowledge co‐creation through university–industry collaboration (UIC). Despite much research on knowledge transfer processes and boundary spanners in inter‐organizational contexts, firms who engage in UIC remain uncertain about how to reap the benefits of co‐creating
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Working in the office or working from home: Where are employees most creative? Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Marc Rücker, Oscar Pakos, Sophia Windschiegl, Kai-Ingo Voigt
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how we work. Even after the pandemic, many companies offer their employees the option of working from home. Although working from home may offer several benefits, our understanding of whether employees are more creative when working from home or in an office is limited. To address this research gap, we conducted an experimental study with a German company
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Predictive or imaginative futures? Experimenting with alternative future‐making approaches Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Ilaria Durante, Claudio Dell'Era, Stefano Magistretti, Cristina Tu Anh Pham
Future‐making, the act of imagining and producing the future, is becoming increasingly relevant in scholarly and practitioner debates. In a constantly evolving society where the future is difficult to navigate, there is an urgent need to explore new and innovative ways of imagining plausible futures that are more desirable to people. The future‐making literature proposes different practices, tools
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Do you believe Red Bull gives wings? When implicit theories of creativity impair creative performance Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Marine Agogué, Béatrice Parguel, Anna Bendas
Everyone seems to have something to say about creativity, thus participating in the reproduction of persistent myths about creativity that may influence creative behaviour. This research explores the influence of Laypeople's Implicit Theories of Creativity (LIToCs) regarding the drivers of creativity on creative performance, to ascertain whether having strong convictions about the drivers of creativity
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Initiation and evolution of systemic innovations: Patterns and interactions in the emergence of additive manufacturing technologies Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Toni Luomaranta, Miia Martinsuo, Roland Ortt
Technological innovations are becoming increasingly systemic in the complex and interconnected world. The initiation and evolution of systemic innovations take time and include numerous challenges, and the mechanisms through which systemic innovations emerge in the interaction between different technologies represent a research gap. This paper explores the emergence of ceramic additive manufacturing
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I think they just logged on and fell asleep: Challenges to facilitating creativity online in higher engineering education Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Patricia Wolf, Kathryn Cormican, Marianne Harbo Frederiksen, Andreas Wilhøft, Hüseyin Ekrem Ulus, Christoph Kunz, Özge Andiç-Çakır, Fırat Sarsar, Manon van Leeuwen
Creativity is a crucial skill for future engineers. Hence, it is becoming increasingly important for higher education (HE) engineering educators to foster and enhance engineering students' creative abilities. Simultaneously, online learning has found a place in engineering education. Nevertheless, we find that HE engineering educators in all domains continue to express a sense of inadequacy when it
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Integration of open innovation, circularity and sustainability: A systematic mapping of connections, analysis of indicators and future prospects Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Shamraiz Ahmad, Tiberio Daddi, Fabio Iraldo
We carried out this novel study to explore various connections of open innovation (OI) with circular economy (CE) and/or sustainable development (SD) and analyse the maturity of their integration based on various characteristics. We followed a systematic literature review approach to identify, select and analyse studies, published from 2012 to 2023. Our study used various keywords to search for the
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Servant leadership, workplace well-being and employee creativity: The roles of psychological availability and experienced creative time pressure Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Wenhao Song, Yingying Ma, Xiucheng Fan, Xiangdong Jin, Xuerong Peng
To better understand the effect of workplace well-being on employee creativity, we examine the effect of servant leadership on employee creativity. Using the social exchange and conservation of resources theories, we constructed a research model to identify how servant leadership affects employee creativity and to investigate its mechanism and boundary conditions. Using data collected from employees
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Disentangling the relations among help-givers' instrumental helping ties, creativity, and creative idea implementation: A social network perspective Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Tao Liu, Yanhui Mao, Shaokai Lu
How does the instrumental helping provided by individuals contribute to their creativity and subsequent implementation of creative ideas? This study aims to answer this question by investigating the relationship between help-givers' helping strength and idea implementation, with a focus on disaggregating instrumental helping ties into helping strength and helping breadth from a social network perspective
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Issue Information Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-02-02
No abstract is available for this article.
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Do office tyrants and centralized decision making drive workplace creative behaviours? Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Ci-Rong Li, Chen-Ju Lin, David Pauleen
Based on affective events theory and the cognitive–affective processing system, this study explores indirect positive and negative effects of perceived abusive supervision on employee creativity through employees' affective reactions at work and how the centralization of decision making can moderate the associations between employee-perceived abusive supervision and anxiety/anger. Using a cross-lagged
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X-reality Film Innovation Circle framework and future directions Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Mariana Berga Rodrigues, Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro
The application of X-reality (XR) technologies is reshaping the business landscape and redefining the film production process and the role of the audience in films. This study presents a bibliometric and content analysis of 131 academic articles to explore the development and research trends of XR in the film industry. We identify five core themes within the topic: (1) technical considerations, (2)
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Evolution of motivation in co-creation: Recruit, retain and complete in a project on new food product co-creation Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Krzysztof Klincewicz, Lina Fogt Jacobsen, Katarzyna Dębska, Michał Gazdecki, Elżbieta Goryńska-Goldmann, Katarzyna Król, Liisa Lähteenmäki, Anna Wielicka-Regulska, Magdalena Zatorska
The study explores the motivation of consumers to join and participate in new product co-creation, distinguishing between recruitment before, retainment during and finalizing of a co-creation project. The research is based on follow-up interviews with participants in a project covering the initial stages of new food product development (i.e., idea generation, idea screening and concept development)
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Does corporate social responsibility increase innovation? Evidence from France Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Ouidad Yousfi
The current paper examines how corporate social responsibility (CSR) through three dimensions (social, environmental and governance) could influence technological and non-technological innovations. The study is conducted on a longitudinal dataset of firms listed on the SBF1201 index between 2005 and 2016. It shows significant associations between CSR performance, particularly social and governance
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Income adequacy among creative professionals—An interplay of identities and skills Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Pekka Stenholm, Kaisa Hytönen, Tommi Pukkinen, Jarna Heinonen
The financially challenging work of creative professionals is a widely recognized concern, and uncovering the root causes of such challenges requires more explorations into the impact of personal factors on income generation. Accordingly, we investigated the significance of 400 creative professionals' entrepreneurial or artistic identities and business skills in their income adequacy on the basis of
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Creativity and artificial intelligence: A multilevel perspective Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Luca Grilli, Mattia Pedota
Artificial intelligence is likely to revolutionize multiple aspects of organizational creativity. Through a multilevel theoretical lens, the present paper reviews the extant body of knowledge on creativity at individual, team and organizational levels, and draws a series of propositions on how the implementation of artificial intelligence may affect each level. Spanning cognitive, behavioural and psychological
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Designer's attitude: The forms of designer's interactions with customers in the design-led innovation process Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Jaehyun Park, Seoyoun Lee, Younghoon Chang, Hyo-Joo Han
This study explores the designer's attitude, illustrating the forms of the designer's interactions with customers in the design-led innovation. While the innovator's dilemma has become a crucial factor within cross-functional teams, a similarly challenging issue arises when attempting to integrate customers into design-led innovation. A proposed model based on Bourdieu's theory of practice was developed
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Goal orientation and business model innovation in dynamic environments: Evidence from the creative industries Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Maria Rita Micheli, Justin J.P. Jansen
Even though business model innovation (BMI) is crucial to enhance competitive advantage, our understanding about how organizations innovate their business model when pursuing contrasting goals is rather underdeveloped. To address this issue, we explore how and why managers' learning and performance orientations affect BMI. Using a survey among managers at companies within the creative industries, such
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Why so serious? The effects of humour on creativity and innovation Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Wim G. Biemans, Eelko K. R. E. Huizingh
Humour is an integral part of human interactions, but it is not clear how it contributes to creativity in innovation. This paper provides new insights into the emerging literature about the impact of humour on creativity in innovation by conceptualizing humour as a situation-specific state and using a mixed methods research design to investigate the use and impact of humour in two specific innovation
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High-performance work systems, psychological empowerment and creative process engagement: A componential theory of creativity perspective Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Muhammad Zeeshan Mirza, Muhammad Izaz Qaiser, Mumtaz Ali Memon
Drawing on componential theory of creativity, this study investigates the impact of high-performance work systems (HPWS) on psychological empowerment (PE) and creative process engagement (CPE). It also examines the mediating role of PE between HPWS and CPE. Additionally, the study investigates the moderating role of leader–member exchange (LMX) between HPWS, PE and CPE. Data were collected from 233
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Differential effects of external networks and integrative effects of employee integration on innovation ambidexterity Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Dilupa Nakandala, Nguyen Dinh Tho, Henry Lau
Innovation ambidexterity is important for firms, but their ability to develop both strategies simultaneously has been conventionally challenged. This challenge is caused by the heterogeneous demands of distinct capabilities and resources of exploratory and exploitative innovations. This paper thus investigates the interplay among internal and external collaborations, ambidextrous innovation, and absorptive
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Entrepreneurial alertness during severe crises: The effect on internal corporate venturing through business model innovation as a strategic response Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Maarten Colson, Pieter Vandekerkhof, Wim Marneffe, Jelle Schepers
This study exploits a unique sample of 536 Belgian SME business owners, collected immediately after the first COVID-19 lockdown, and provides new insights into how, during severe crises, business owners' entrepreneurial alertness functions as a critical strategic opportunity discovery skill for SMEs. Concretely, we find that entrepreneurial alertness can determine the emergence of a business model
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The effect of ability, motivation and opportunity (AMO) on SMEs' innovation performance Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Taher Alkhalaf, Omar Al-Tabbaa
While there is extensive research on SMEs' innovation, limited attention has been given to the specific implications of HRM practices in fostering innovation in this sector. This represents a critical gap, considering the unique challenges faced by SMEs in managing their human resources. Accordingly, in this study, we developed and validated a conceptual model that evaluates the ability of SMEs to
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Issue Information Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-11-02
No abstract is available for this article.
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Leveraging corporate sustainability through responsible innovation: Capacity building with exploration and exploitation Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Gizem Aras Beger, Bayram Bilge Sağlam, Duygu Turker
The growing literature on corporate sustainability suggests its positive implications for organizations and stakeholders. Based on the social identity approach, the current study aims to investigate whether responsible innovation can leverage these sustainability advantages of companies to improve organizational commitment and competitiveness. Responsible innovation has been integrated into an original
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From ideas to innovations: The role of individuals in idea implementation Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Alena Valtonen, Jaan-Pauli Kimpimäki, Iryna Malacina
The extant literature has underlined the pivotal role of individuals in innovation implementation. However, we are still missing a holistic understanding of the individual-level factors necessary for idea implementation. Based on a systematic content analysis review of 125 articles, we identify six categories of individual-level factors that have been found to promote the successful implementation
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Lovable fools and creativity in teams Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Jun Ma, Bin Zhao, Jiani Yan, Christopher D. Zatzick
Although employees with low task performance are typically perceived as outcasts in organizations, one group of such employees has the potential to generate positive outcomes. We seek to understand how lovable fools (i.e., individuals with low task performance and high contextual performance) influence creativity within teams. Specifically, we study the countervailing effects of increased psychological
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Maneuvering responsive, tactical, and preventive innovation in an innovation ecosystem to address the grand challenge of organized crime Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Susanne Nilsson, Sofia Ritzén
Our knowledge of how to design innovation ecosystems that effectively deal with grand challenges or wicked problems is currently insufficient due to a lack of understanding of their joint innovation processes. Through the use of an in-depth case of an innovation ecosystem designed to combat organized crime, this study shows how diverse government authorities manoeuvre innovation and interact to continuously
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Staff engagement through action learning enabling the practice of developing new services in a publicly funded university Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Katrin Dreyer-Gibney, Paul Coughlan, David Coghlan
Today, universities operate in an exceptionally challenging environment characterized by financial constraints and state-imposed restrictions on critical strategic and operational issues. At the same time, they face rising student numbers and a more diverse student population. One way to address these challenges is through new service development (NSD). This paper examines how staff engagement through
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Innovation approaches and innovation logics: An empirical study on developing entertaining digital games Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Björn Remneland Wikhamn, Alexander Styhre
This paper sets out to analyse how game developers create entertaining digital games and, more precisely, what forms of innovation approaches they adopt and why. Based on an empirical study of Swedish game development studios, we conceptualize two different approaches to innovation: a more inward-oriented and developer-centric (i.e., closed) approach and a more outward-oriented and user-centric (i
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Experience matters: The mediating role of gameful experience in the relationship between gamified competition and perceived innovation culture Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Corinna Vera Hedwig Schmidt, Jonas Manske, Tessa Christina Flatten
Employees perceiving their organizational culture as innovative increase their output and enhance company performance. A potential approach to improving employees' perception of an innovation culture involves implementing gamified competition in the workplace. Despite the numerous studies on gamified competition, its relationship with employees' perceived innovation culture and the role of their gameful
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Perceived knowledge relevance in an R&D alliance: The role of job experience, social network position and motivation Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Xiao Wang, Hans van der Bij, Wilfred Dolfsma
If employees have access to additional relevant knowledge and information, they can be more innovative, which is a reason for many firms to ally. Key in an alliance is the sharing of existing and creating of new knowledge, but transferring knowledge inside an alliance is not obvious or easy. Knowledge exchanged within an alliance must be perceived as relevant in order for it to be used. If individuals
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Issue Information Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-08-02
No abstract is available for this article.
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What kind of intimacy is meaningful to you? How intimate interactions foster individuals' sensemaking of innovation Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Paola Bellis, Tommaso Buganza, Roberto Verganti
This study examines how intimacy affects individuals' sensemaking of innovation in their organization. Although sensemaking facilitates understanding innovation and envisioning new worldviews, it involves a delicate process of self-disclosure, reflection, personal contact and communication. Intimacy focuses on time-bounded interactions that foster individuals' progressive self-disclosure and perceptions
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Design thinking impact on value creation and value capture on innovation projects Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Gabriel Delage e Silva, Eduardo Zancul
Design thinking has proven to be an effective approach to driving innovation in diverse contexts and has attracted increasing interest from scholars and practitioners. However, the plurality of points of view about design thinking can bring diffuse understandings and hinder a cohesive perspective on the construct. This work continues the research stream to provide greater specificity about design thinking
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Market orientation, restructuring and collaboration: The impact of digital design on organizational competitiveness Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Marina Dabić, Nebojša Stojčić, Komivi Afawubo, Mourad Chouki, Nicolas Huck
Design is commonly understood as a key element of products, contributing to their distinctiveness, usability and aesthetics. The success of a product is increasingly related to the user experience or the aesthetics of the user interface, meaning that design is increasingly important in the digital environment. The shift in competitive focus to the customer induced by digital design encourages companies
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What can economic coordination do for creativity and well-being? Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Silvia Sacchetti
The scope of this paper is contributing to unveiling how economic organizing can be more humanistic by delving into ideas of well-being and advancing them through the concepts of creativity. Accordingly, our contribution reflects on how designing and implementing organizations and processes inspired to creativity can ameliorate the life of participants. We therefore analyse issues of economic coordination
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To what extent does organizational learning influence the stakeholder pressure–green procurement nexus? Evidence from Ghana Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Priscilla Tuffour, Guangyu Chen, Richard Adu Agyapong, Assila Abdallah, Evans Opoku-Mensah
The United Nations has described global warming as reaching a code red point for humanity and requires drastic measures to avert further terrible warming. Green procurement practices have been recognized as sustainable measures towards a low carbon trajectory, yet its implementation is still at the embryonic stage mainly due to weaknesses in organizational creativity skills and learning strategies
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Employee acceptance of disruptive service innovations at the frontline: The role of collective sensemaking processes Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Christopher Garrelfs, Carsten Schultz, Marie Luengen
Acceptance of service innovation by frontline employees is a challenging issue, especially if such innovations have the potential to disrupt existing value creation models and individual competencies. Disruptive service innovations are often (1) characterized by a high degree of innovativeness related to significant changes in technology and in the market and (2) may be introduced by technology manufacturers
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Physical interaction platforms: A taxonomy of spaces for interactive value creation Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Maximilian Perez Mengual, Frank Danzinger, Angela Roth
Physical interaction platforms (PIPs) such as living labs, innovation hubs and fab labs can play a key role for complex innovation tasks in the context of grand challenges. Although research focuses predominantly on aspects like collaboration within and organization of these spaces, little research has shed light on the development process of the PIP itself. This paper aims to contribute to innovation
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Where business model innovation comes from and where it goes: A bibliometric review Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Xiaoyan Zhang, Fabio Antonialli, Sylvie Mira Bonnardel, Olivier Bareille
Business model innovation (BMI) has been evolving as a burgeoning topic in academia and business practice for over two decades. In recent years, knowledge production within the BMI field is accelerating at a tremendous rate, making it hard to keep up with the state of the art. Given its broad literature coverage and the systematic and reproducible process of applying statistical and quantitative techniques
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Issue Information Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-05-08
No abstract is available for this article.
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Who captures value from hackathons? Innovation contests with collective intelligence tools bridging creativity and coupled open innovation Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Issam Attalah, Petra A. Nylund, Alexander Brem
Balancing value creation and value capture is a fundamental strategic issue for the management of open innovation. Insufficient compensation for created value may hinder the participation of a firm or individual in open innovation. It can thus provide an obstacle to the open innovation process as a whole. Hackathons provide an attractive setting for studying value appropriation in open innovation by
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Innovation in the creative industries: Linking the founder's creative and business orientation to innovation outcomes Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Florian Koch, Max Hoellen, Elmar D. Konrad, Alexander Kock
Creative industries contain paradoxes because conflicting tensions arise between the market and the arts. Entrepreneurs need to find and maintain a balance between those two sides to create innovation. This study tests the interaction between business and creative orientations of a founder in their influence on innovation in the context of creative entrepreneurial firms and provides recommendations
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How entrepreneurial practices balance art and business: Insights into creative entrepreneurship in the European film industry Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Viktoriya Pisotska, Kerem Gurses
Relying on the literature on tensions and contradictions and the theory of practice, coupled with the literature on creative industries, this study uncovers how creative entrepreneurs balance the tension between art and business and respond to other challenges of creative entrepreneurship. The multiple case studies method is adopted by examining founders, cofounders and main employees of European film
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Developing technological capabilities for Industry 4.0 adoption: An analysis of the role of inbound open innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Dominique Lepore, Claudia Vecciolini, Alessandra Micozzi, Francesca Spigarelli
To keep up with rapid technological change, firms are pushed to acquire new competencies and resources, often leveraging the external networks in which they are involved. The paper examines how firms' engagement in inbound open innovation (OI) enables the adoption of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through the deployment of technological capabilities. We
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Leveraging new business innovation for strategic renewal: An organizational framework for strategic corporate venturing Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Lysander Weiss, Dominik K. Kanbach
To adapt their competitive advantages for successful strategic renewal, established companies must apply suitable innovation activities. One way to achieve this is the establishment of corporate venturing units that create organizationally consequential new business innovation for their parent company. However, the understanding of the distinctive organizational characteristics for such strategic corporate
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Correction to “Crowdsourcing innovation challenges: How participants react when their ideas are rejected” Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-03-17
Vellera, C., Jouny-Rivier, E., & Hemonnet-Goujot, A. (2023). Crowdsourcing innovation challenges: How participants react when their ideas are rejected. Creativity and Innovation Management, 32(1), 158–173. https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12528 The corresponding author would like to add the following Research laboratory name to her correspondence details: Aix-Marseille Univ, CERGAM. The online version
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Connecting the unconnected: Analogies and the development of insight in the absorptive capacity process Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Desmond Ng, Leonardo Sánchez-Aragón
While innovation has been widely attributed to a firm's absorptive capacity (AC), product and marketing studies have found that insight is central to a firm's creativity and innovation. Creativity and innovation studies have found that individuals often relate to external information through an analogical reasoning process and that this process develops insight into a firm's innovation. Although the
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Reviewing excellence Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Harry Boer, Fausto Di Vincenzo, Jennie Björk, René Chester Goduscheit, Katharina Hölzle, Tim Schweisfurth, Jeannette Visser-Groeneveld
Creativity and Innovation Management has grown substantially over the last couple of years, both quantitatively and qualitatively. From 2016 to 2021, the number of submissions has grown from 287 to 395. Most of the growth was realized in Asia: The number of submissions from that continent increased from 72 in 2016 to 193 in 2021. The rest of the world remained (close to) stable: 215 in 2016 and 203
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Making the most out of the innovation of meaning: The importance of inclusion for creativity in inside-out envisioning Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Satoru Goto, Hikaru Makino, Takuo Ando
Innovation of meaning (IoM) is one of the streams that has attracted attention in design thinking research. Inside-out envisioning aims to assist non-designer employees practice IoM in a similar manner to how visionary executives and designers perform. The process starts with exposing their intrinsic visions to innovate the dominant social or organizational meanings. This makes the employees' creativity
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Issue Information Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-02-15
No abstract is available for this article.
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Shall we dance? How systemic intermediaries coordinate interaction within local sustainability initiatives over time Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Linda Kutter, Patricia Wolf, Catherine Sudbrack Rothbarth
Local sustainability transition projects are often coordinated by systemic intermediaries. In this context, previous research identified an extensive list of systemic intermediary roles and functions in the acceleration phase of these initiatives. However, little is known about the interplay between systemic intermediary activities and emerging collaboration patterns over time. This paper analyses
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How do you frame ill-defined problems? A study on creative logics in action Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Cristina Tu Anh Pham, Stefano Magistretti, Claudio Dell'Era
Problem framing is pivotal to fostering knowledge and innovation, especially in the modern environment where problems are often ill defined. However, the managerial literature has thus far mainly addressed problem framing from an outcome perspective, overlooking the processes that lead to the outcomes. A common view is that the complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty of ill-defined problems call for
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Creativity in virtual teams: Systematic review, synthesis and research agenda Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Elie Abi Saad, Marine Agogué
Virtual teams are gaining increasing momentum in contemporary organizations. Although it is becoming clear that virtual teams will play a major role in shaping the future of work, we still know relatively little about their creative performance. Because of the disproportionate focus on conventional, face-to-face working practices, much of the literature remains centred around co-located teams. In this
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Standing in others' shoes: The role of leader prosocial motivation in facilitating employee creativity Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Yanmei Zhao, Zhengtang Zhang, Ying Lu, Mingzhi Ding
By reference to social learning theory, this research examines the effect of leader prosocial motivation on employee creativity through investigating the mediating role of employee perspective taking and the moderating role of leader performance. Using a dyadic sample of 262 subordinates and their direct supervisors, the results reveal that leader prosocial motivation positively relates to employee
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Which types of firm use collaborative innovative spaces? Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-01-14 David Doloreux, Richard Shearmur, Raphaël Suire, Anne Berthinier-Poncet
Collaborative innovation spaces (CIS) can bring together multiple actors to enhance creativity, collaboration and knowledge exchange, sometimes leading to innovation. In this paper, we suggest that CIS can be categorized into three broad types (internal to the firm, external and virtual) and that each type is related to innovation processes, knowledge-sourcing and geographic context in specific ways
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Do cultural and creative entrepreneurs make affectively driven decisions? Not when they evaluate their opportunities Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Celia Díaz-Portugal, Juan Bautista Delgado-García, Virginia Blanco-Mazagatos
Our research studies the influence of positive affect on entrepreneurs' evaluations of opportunities (i.e. novelty assessments and entrepreneurial selection) as well as how this influence may be different for entrepreneurs belonging to cultural and creative industries. Drawing on arguments on the role of affect in cognition and considering the particular situational and individual-level factors of
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Creative cognition: A multidisciplinary and integrative framework of creative thinking Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Felix Pinkow
Extant research provides vast information on antecedents to creativity. However, creative thinking is oftentimes treated as a black box, requiring input and producing creative output. Cognitive processes occurring during creative thinking tend to be neglected, although they can provide a bridge between the inputs to creativity and the resulting outputs. Literature offers different perspectives on creative
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Influence of green creativity on organizations: A case study from the perspectives of leaders and subordinates Creat. Innovat. Manag. (IF 3.644) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Paulo Lopes Henriques, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, Jéssica Laranjeira
The sustainability framework has a strong influence on the policies, practices and procedures of companies. Green creativity plays a pivotal role in the development of initiatives and innovations for the environmental pillar of sustainability. Based on a survey applied to a Portuguese company with an accredited environmental management system (N = 146), the findings reveal that green creativity is