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Contribution from different domains for creativity management in the context of innovation

Revista de Negócios

Creativity is an ever-increasing theme of interest in the context of management due to its importance for the innovation process. Current literature suggests that the interaction between the concepts of innovation and creativity is not clear. Both phenomena are cognitive and nebulous concepts and therefore are difficult to access by traditional research approaches. Considering creativity management in the scope of innovation processes faced by organizations, this study aims at contributing for the clarifying the relation between creativity and innovation by analyzing it under the point of view of the three domains: design, haute cuisine and art. That research strategy is based on the need for a systemic view of creativity, standing out the growing interest in the field of creativity for the study of processes in different domains. The study articulates two investigation methods structured in two parts: (i) literature review and (ii) systematic literature review. Both methods are bou...

Relationship between creativity and product innovation: A literature review

Product Management & Development, 2016

Creativity and innovation became essential issues in the organizational environments, by revealing their importance to achieve the differential in dynamic markets. In this scenario, this article aims show how the relationship between creativity and product innovation is approached in scientific studies and suggest future research themes. Hence, a literature review was made using as a research source the "Periódicos Capes", which after the filter, lead to the analysis of 40 papers published in the period 1990 to 2011. Examining the amount of publications per year, it was observed an increase in published articles of this thematic in the last five years, but despite this there is a gap in detailing the relationship between creativity and product innovation. As result, it this would propose that the creativity can be present in different ways in perspective to the innovation process: it's conception, development or improvement, according to the integrative model proposed. This suggests that future research look into studies about the relationship between creativity and product innovation, applying research methods such as the action research, for example.

Creativity and Innovation in Haute Cuisine: Towards a Systemic Model

Creativity and Innovation Management, 2014

The contribution of this study is an increased understanding of personal creativity and the innovation process in haute cuisine, a validation of the socio-cultural systems view of creativity and a model that accounts for the socio-cultural dimensions of haute cuisine. In this paper we discuss existing views that conceptualize creativity and innovation in this sector as a sequential developmental process following the principles of operations management. However, based on in-depth interviews with world-renowned chefs, we argue for a systemic rather than sequential developmental process view. The reason for this is that the chefs interviewed understand the ‘creativity part’ of the innovation process as an embodied experience often guided by intuition and the ‘innovation part’ as a process of social evaluation greatly dependent on the perception, knowledge and value judgement of the testers from the leading restaurant guides. The main implications of the findings go beyond the haute cuisine sector and open areas for future research on creativity and intuition more generally.

Creativity and Innovation: The Case of Haute Cuisine

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 2016

This study focuses on creativity and innovation in the gastronomy sector, where both concepts have become increasingly relevant determinants of success, business performance and longer-term survival. Specifically, it investigates the key factors that effectively stimulate the actions and behaviours leading to a continuous flow of novel and useful ideas that can be turned into innovations. To achieve this, an inductive methodology was used, based on the study of a single but significant case, using the semi-structured in-depth interview. The results show that new ideas are mainly generated directly by the chef; hence individual features play a leading role, together with endless experimentation. They furthermore underline that the innovation process is mainly influenced by a trial-and-error approach, which is possible only if the chef has a genuine entrepreneurial spirit. These results hold several relevant theoretical and practical implications.

Organizational Creativity as an Attributional Process: The Case of Haute Cuisine

Organization Studies

In this paper, we develop a framework that conceptualizes organizational creativity as an attributional process in which organizational creativity is constantly negotiated between an organization and its environment through ‘entre-relating activities’. Based on an empirical analysis of this process in the haute-cuisine restaurant Rutz in Berlin, we explore four entre-relating activities – surprising, satisfying, stimulating and savouring – through which ‘being creative’ and ‘being considered creative’ are set in relation to negotiate the attribution of organizational creativity. Our findings demonstrate how the sequential performance of these entre-relating activities is consequential for the gradual transition of external evaluations of an organization’s outcomes, from being considered ‘different’ to ‘one of a kind’, and thus the increasing attribution of organizational creativity over time. Our study contributes to the literature on organizational creativity by exploring the inter...

Creativity & Innovation: Four Key Issues from a Literature Review

This paper is about creativity and innovation in the educational field. Through a literature review, we describe the results of two decades of research on creativity and innovation in the educational and organizational field, to underline what seemed to work and what did not, to enable these processes functioning effectively. In this literature review, a search of publications dealing with the issues of innovation and creativity and the links between these two issues has been made. We decided to put these studies in four theoretical, ex-post created, dimensions: organizational structures, individual characteristics, training methods and pedagogical practices and training content. The content of this article is based on one of the outputs of the European Commission funded project, named CLEAR (Creativity and innovation: pedagogical framework for the learning chain).

Creativity & Innovation: Four Key Issues from a Literature Review

Creative Education, 2014

This paper is about creativity and innovation in the educational field. Through a literature review, we describe the results of two decades of research on creativity and innovation in the educational and organizational field, to underline what seemed to work and what did not, to enable these processes function effectively. In this literature review, a search of publications dealing with the issues of innovation and creativity and the links between these two issues has been made. We decided to put these studies in four theoretical, ex-post created, dimensions: organizational structures, individual characteristics, training methods and pedagogical practices and training content. The content of this article is based on one of the outputs of the European Commission funded project, named CLEAR (Creativity and innovation: pedagogical framework for the learning chain).

EURAM 2014 Call For Papers: Organizing creativity for innovation

European Academy of Management

creativity and innovation. We hope to discuss which processes, mechanisms, behaviors, tools and methods promote or hamper creative and innovative efforts of individuals and teams, and how they can be managed in organisations. We intend to include knowledge from various disciplines that traditionally do not much work together. We will bring together scholars from different disciplines that conduct research that is relevant for socio‐organisational context (e.g. within management theory and practice, organisational behavior, human resource management, entrepreneurship, strategic management,), socio‐technical systems or physical work context (e.g. within architecture, interior design, ergonomics, environmental psychology). We welcome both conceptual/theoretical and empirical contributions with a variety of research strategies including surveys, experiments, case studies, ethnographic studies, discourse studies and reviews. We focus on “Organising” which includes (HR) management practices, leadership, organizational context, and strategic environment for creativity and innovation (e.g. HR practices such as recruitment and selection, job design, training and development, performance appraisal, compensation and rewards; leadership styles, organisational work environment design, physical work environment design, organisational culture and climate, and strategies). We focus on the “Creativity” of individuals and teams in general as well as with a specific creativity task (such as designers, consultants, managers, marketers). Innovation includes products, services, processes, marketing, business model innovations but also other types of innovations such as continuous and discontinuous, open or ecological innovations for sustainability. We hope to explore how organising creativity for innovation can affect firm “performance”. Topics include,  Organisational design for creativity and innovation  Work environment design for creativity and innovation  Organisational culture and climate for creativity and innovation  Human resource management for creativity and innovation  Leadership for creativity and innovation  Strategies for creativity and innovation  Knowledge management for creativity and innovation  Creativity and innovation through collaboration between and within organisations  Creativity and innovation in entrepreneurial organisations and SMEs  Managing creativity in specific professions and business environments  Critical perspectives on organisational design and the organising of creativity and innovation  Creative tools and methods for business model innovation