Table of Contents
PART ONE: CONTEMPLATING CREATIVE ACTION IN ORGANIZATIONS
Multiple Visions and Multiple Voices - Cameron M Ford and Dennis A Gioia
Academic and Practitioner Conceptions of Creativity in Organizations
Creativity is a Mystery - Cameron M Ford
Clues from the Investigators' Notebooks
PART TWO: IVORY TOWER VISIONS
Boogie down Wonderland - Jay A Conger
Creativity and Visionary Leadership
Managing Creativity - Richard W Woodman
Creativity and Entrepreneurship - Harry Nystrom
Creative Values and Creative Visions in Teams at Work - Michael A West
Discovering the Unknowable, Managing the Unmanageable - Teresa M Amabile
Individual Creativity and Organizational Innovation - Nigel King
An Uncertain Link
Creativity as Heroic - Dean Keith Simonton
Risk, Success, Failure, and Acclaim
Creativity - Daniel J Brass
It's All in Your Social Network
The Role of Collaboration in Creativity - Nirma Kl Sethia
How Organizations Channel Creativity - William H Starbuck
Promoting Creativity in Organizations - Edwin A Locke and Shelley A Kirkpatrick
The Many Facets of Creativity - Peter J Frost
Is Your Creative Organization Innovative? - Fariborz Damanpour
Training Creativity in the Corporation - Robert W Weisberg
The View from the Psychological Laboratory
Q: Does Feedback Enhance or Inhibit Creativity in Organizations? A: Yes! - James L Farr
Everything New under the Gun - Connie J G Gersick
Creativity and Deadlines
Creativity Training and Hemispheric Function - Craig C Lundberg
Bringing the Left Brain Back In
Management of Cultural Innovations - Dag Björkengren
Why No One Really Wants Creativity - Barry M Staw
Shifting the Focus from Individual to Organizational Creativity - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Keith Sawyer
Ten Tips toward Creativity in the Workplace - Robert J Sternberg and Todd I Lubart
Creative Post-Processing - Kristian Kreiner and Majken Schultz
On Making Turbulence Valuable
Creativity and the Aesthetics of Imperfection - Karl E Weick
PART THREE: REAL WORLD VOICES
The Changing Face of Creativity - F Ben Jones
Corporate America - Pedro Cuatrecasas
Creativity Held Hostage
Coaching Your Way to Creativity - Russell C Ford
Creating a Creativity Revolution - Delbert H Jacobs
Creativity in a Large Company - Alexander Mac Lachlan
All You Have to Do is Ask for It
Creativity by Decree - A New Approach - Isaac R Barpal
Creativity and Innovation - Philip X Masciantonio
Keys for Preventing Environmental Gridlock
Creativity in Government - Wellington E Webb
The Challenge of Reinventing State Government - John Engler
Creativity Today - George Heard
Are You Creating Solutions or Problems? - R Larry Wuench
Organizing for Innovation - Thoralf Ulrik Qvale
From Individual Creativity to Learning Networks
Principle-Based Creativity - Timothy F Price
Prompting Individual Initiative in Large Organizations
Membranes for Gas Separation - Walter L Robb
A Case Study in Creativity
Why Do You Have to Go 'Off-Campus' to Get Creative? - Norman P Findley
The Pro-Team - Karl-Erik Sveiby
Solving the Dilemma of Organized Creativity in Production
Fostering Creativity in Large Organizations - Carole F St Mark
Creativity at Woolworth Corporation - C Jackson Gray
Acquiring and Managing Creative Talent - Norman E Johnson
Creativity through Self-Appraisal - F E Bailey and James R Bailey
Organizing for Creativity - Terry O'Connor
Ideas Dancing in the Human Being - Robert Michael Burnside
Gee Whiz! - So What? - Alan G Chynoweth
PART FOUR: UNDERSTANDING AND INFLUENCING CREATIVITY IN ORGANIZATIONS
Contrasts and Convergences in Creativity - Dennis A Gioia
Themes in Academic and Practitioner Views
Striking Inspirational Sparks and Fanning Creative Flames - Cameron M Ford
A Multi-Domain Model of Creative Action Taking
Guidelines for Creative Action Taking in Organizations - Cameron M Ford and Dennis A Gioia