Spaces for creativity and innovation within and across organizational boundaries / edited by Amalya L. Oliver, Jörg Sydow and Patrick Cohendet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oliver, Amalya, editor of compilation.

Sydow, Jörg, editor of compilation.

Cohendet, Patrick, editor of compilation.

Series:

Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 91.

Research in the sociology of organizations ; volume 91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational sociology.

Communication in organizations.

Creative ability in business.

Cooperation.

Collaboration in organizations.

Innovation in business.

Local Subjects:

Collaboration in organizations.

Innovation in business.

Physical Description:

xviii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Emerald Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"Delving into how the locus of creativity and innovation with new knowledge, products or processes takes place, while crossing organizational boundaries into what was termed "in-between spaces", the edited volume Spaces for Creativity and Innovation Within and Across Organizational Boundaries showcases the new organizational theoretical approaches and research questions that emerge from this focus on social interactions' spaces of different kind. Featuring multiple perspectives on this topic, the chapters focus on resources such as time and structure, and how they act as enabling as well as constraining factors in collaborative processes, the puzzling relevance of constraints in creative processes, and temporary or permanent experimental spaces. Additionally, analyzing the social networks that are formed in the creative and innovative space within or across organizational boundaries, the authors investigate how these networks can vary by structure and membership over time, or by the exchange processes they capture. Demonstrating that for the creative process to unfold and become institutionalized, another level of interactions needs to be included, the volume shows how creative processes critically rely on the 'middleground', which consists of intermediary groups and communities that link the informal communities of the underground with formal organizations of the upperground. Tackling challenges that can enable and constrain creative and innovative processes in such in-between spaces such as issues of intellectual capital and trust and issues of competition and collaboration, this edited collection looks ahead to how we can create thriving spaces for creativity and innovation within and across organizations"--Back cover.

Contents:

Spaces for creativity and innovation within and across organizational boundaries: Introduction / Jörg Sydow, Amalya L. Oliver, and Patrick Cohendet

Part 1. Characterization of Spaces.

'In-between spaces' for collaborative innovation: Elucidating interrelated relational spaces / Susanne Ollila and Anna Yström

The collaborative middleground: How employees and managers co-create novel ideas / Nadine Scholz, Marcela Miozzo, and Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O

Emergence and organization of a creative place in the middleground: Acceleration, collateral effect and critical mass / Thomas Blonski, Thomas Paris, and Pierre Poinsignon

Effect of proximity relationships on creativity and innovation in an interorganizational complex project / Thierry Houé

How innovation consultants perform 'liminality work' in helping others to be creative / Maura Soekijad, Natalja Laurey, Hans Berends, and Marleen Huysman

Part 2. Nonstandard Spaces. Failure as a process: Shaping what is worth doing in creative projects / Birke D. Otto, Benjamin Schiemer, Harry Sminia, and Jörg Sydow

The power of heterotopias: Inter-organizational cooperation as an experimental space / Martina Ukowitz and Markus Messerschmidt

Idea work beyond organizational boundaries: Framing and reframing projects on a crowdfunding platform / Genjiro Kosaka, Yuki Tsuboyama, and Takahiro Endo

Switching between different spaces of stimulation and focus: Steering idea work in hybrid work settings / Anne Kurzmann, Christian Hoßbach, and Anne-Katrin Neyer

Part 3. Specific Localities. Place-based affordances: Theorizing the role of places in organizing creativity / Etienne Capron and Elie Saaoud

Possibilities for technological entrepreneurship in peripheral space: An institutional perspective / Efrat Asulin, Amalya L. Oliver, and Shai Harel

How does a public policy fail? Creative city policy and the tensional space of artist-led organizations / Rebecca Prescott, Ziyun Fan, Ziad Elsahn, and Tom Mordue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

183549367X

9781835493670

OCLC:

1515079686