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Klappentext Creativity often leads to the development of original ideas that are useful or influential, and maintaining creativity is crucial for the continued development of organizations in particular and society in general. Most research and writing has focused on individual creativity. Yet, in recentyears there has been an increasing acknowledgment of the importance of the social and contextual factors in creativity. Even with the information explosion and the growing necessity for specialization, the development of innovations still requires group interaction at various stages in the creativeprocess. Most organizations increasingly rely on the work of creative teams where each individual is an expert in a particular area. This volume summarizes the exciting new research developments on the processes involved in group creativity and innovation, and explores the relationship between groupprocesses, group context, and creativity. It draws from a broad range of research perspectives, including those investigating cognition, groups, creativity, information systems, and organizational psychology. These different perspectives have been brought together in one volume in order to focusattention on this developing literature and its implications for theory and application. The chapters in this volume are organized into two sections. The first focuses on how group decision making is affected by factors such as cognitive fixation and flexibility, group diversity, minority dissent, group decision-making, brainstorming, and group support systems. Special attention isdevoted to the various processes and conditions that can inhibit or facilitate group creativity. The second sectionexplores how various contextual and environmental factors affect the creative processes of groups. The chapters explore issues of group autonomy, group socialization, mentoring, teaminnovation, knowledge transfer, and creativity at the level of cultures and societies. The Zusammenfassung Creativity is important for the continuous development of organizations, science and society. With the information explosion, the development of innovations will increasingly require group interaction at some stage of the process. This volume addresses the relation between group processes, group context, and creativity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Group creativity: An Introduction Part I: Group process and creativity 2: The constraining effects of initial ideas 3: Diversity and creativity in work groups 4: Better than individuals? The potential benefits of dissent and diversity for group creativity 5: Group creativity and collective choice 6: Ideational creativity in groups: Lessons from research on brainstorming 7: Cognitive stimulation and interference in idea generating groups 8: Electronic brainstorming: Theory, research and future directions Part II: Group creativity in context 9: Is the social psychology of creativity really social? Moving beyond a focus on the individual 10: Newcomer innovation in work teams 11: The group as mentor: Social capital and the systems model of creativity 12: Creativity and innovation implementation in teams 13: Learning from direct and indirect experience in organisations 14: Creative cultures, nations and civilisations: Strategies and results 15: Group creativity: Common themes and future directions ...
