Managing Creativity in Organizations Critique and Practices [Paperback]

Managing Creativity in Organizations addresses the notion of organizational creativity and innovation in general, and explores in some detail how it is achieved. The first part of the book critically reviews the literature on creativity. The second half explores the management of organizational creativity in the pharmaceutical industry. Here issues such as technology, cognition and leadership are introduced as central resources and practices in the management of organizational creativity and innovation. The research is based on management practices in four companies, all of whom have demonstrated a significant ability to exploit their organizational creativity.Introduction: The Absence of Creativity in Practice and Management Writing PART 1: CRITIQUE What is Organizational Creativity? The Epistemology of Creativity Exploring Creativity in Organizations: Methodological Concerns PART 2: PRACTICES Technology and Creativity Intuition and Creativity Leadership and Creativity Conclusion: Managing Organizational Creativity

'The authors provide an exemplary case combining academic rigour and practitioner experience and concerns. They help us towards an understanding of the complexities of creativity at the level of the modern organization and its location within the broader field of organization theory. The treatment helps us re-appraise the nature and role of leadership and organizational rationalities. The book will be welcomed by practitioners, researchers and students of management alike.' - Tudor Rickards, Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change, University of Manchester, UK

'An important contribution to the development of management practices in the context of complexity and creativity. In a world of constantly increasing volatility and uncertainty there is a need for better understanding of how leadership, structural preconditions and technology can enhance organizational creativity.' - Bo Rex, Chairman of the board, Soul Business l“&