Full Description
This volume contains an Open Access chapter.
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.
Contents
Chapter 1. Spaces for creativity and innovation within and across organizational boundaries: Introduction; Jörg Sydow, Amalya L. Oliver, and Patrick Cohendet OPEN ACCESS
Characterization of Spaces
Chapter 2. 'In-between spaces' for collaborative innovation: Elucidating interrelated relational spaces; Susanne Ollila and Anna Yström
Chapter 3. The collaborative middleground: How employees and managers co-create novel ideas; Nadine Scholz, Marcela Miozzo, and Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O
Chapter 4. Emergence and organization of a creative place in the middleground: Acceleration, collateral effect and critical mass; Thomas Blonski, Thomas Paris, and Pierre Poinsignon
Chapter 5. Effect of proximity relationships on creativity and innovation in an interorganizational complex project; Thierry Houé
Chapter 6. How innovation consultants perform 'liminality work' in helping others to be creative; Maura Soekijad, Natalja Laurey, Hans Berends, and Marleen Huysman
Nonstandard Spaces
Chapter 7. Failure as a process: Shaping what is worth doing in creative projects; Birke D. Otto, Benjamin Schiemer, Harry Sminia, and Jörg Sydow
Chapter 8. The power of heterotopias: Inter-organizational cooperation as an experimental space; Martina Ukowitz and Markus Messerschmidt
Chapter 9. Idea work beyond organizational boundaries: Framing and reframing projects on a crowdfunding platform; Genjiro Kosaka, Yuki Tsuboyama, and Takahiro Endo
Chapter 10. Switching between different spaces of stimulation and focus: Steering idea work in hybrid work settings; Anne Kurzmann, Christian Hoßbach, and Anne-Katrin Neyer
Specific Localities
Chapter 11. Place-based affordances: Theorizing the role of places in organizing creativity; Etienne Capron and Elie Saaoud
Chapter 12. Possibilities for technological entrepreneurship in peripheral space: An institutional perspective; Efrat Asulin, Amalya L. Oliver, and Shai Harel
Chapter 13. 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
