Managing Networks of Creativity (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138960020 ISBN 13: 9781138960022

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

The aim of the Managing Networks of Creativity is to improve our understanding of creativity and the management of creativity, as discussed in the fields of management (including strategic management, organization science, organizational behaviour, and entrepreneurship), economics, sociology, regional studies, and political science.

While research on creativity has made several important contributions to the theoretical literature, little attention has been paid to the development and testing of formal theoretical models, especially in those cases where creativity is the result not so much of individual behaviour than the outcome of collective efforts, connecting individuals in organizations, social networks, projects, geographic clusters, and so forth. The proposed volume includes studies, both conceptual and empirical, which, as a whole, "deconstruct" the concept of creativity and the management of creativity by identifying specific situations, contexts, firms, clusters, and districts in which creative processes evolve. The reader is provided with in-depth discussions of theoretical issues and a range of descriptive cases and survey data that the authors use to explore or test concepts and models. Overall, the volume aims to integrate current debates concerning the role of creativity (and innovation) in economic and social development.

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About the Author

Fiorenza Belussi is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics "Marco Fanno" at the Faculty of Science Policy, University of Padua, Italy.

Udo Staber is Professor and Chair of Organization Studies in the Department of Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Review

"This is an original book which brings together, in a distinctive evolutionary perspective, a collection of sound investigations on the complex linkages and connections underlying innovative and creative processes. The variety of industries, types of networks and localities analyzed in the book offers a rather unique ensemble of fresh evidence on contemporary processes of economic, social and institutional change." – Simona Iammarino, University of Sussex

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138960020
• ISBN 13: 9781138960022
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Belussi Fiorenza, Staber Udo Hermann