Psychology of Innovation in Organizations

Informationen zum Autor David H. Cropley is Associate Professor of Engineering Innovation at the University of South Australia. His publications include Creativity and Crime: A Psychological Analysis (with Arthur J. Cropley), The Dark Side of Creativity (with Arthur J. Cropley, James C. Kaufman and Mark A. Runco), and Creativity in Engineering: Novel Solutions to Complex Problems. Arthur J. Cropley is Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Hamburg. He was the founding editor of the European Journal of High Ability (currently known as High Ability Studies), and he is the author or editor of twenty-eight books, which have been widely translated. Klappentext This book presents a dynamic model of the interactions between organizational innovation systems' key components: product, person, process, and press. Zusammenfassung Organizations increasingly need to innovate in order to survive! and this book demonstrates how they can effectively apply the psychology of creativity to business. The authors analyze the nature of innovative products and the processes that generate them! the psychological characteristics of innovative people! and the environments that facilitate innovation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Understanding innovation: a reorientation; Part I. Basic Concepts: 2. Products: what does innovation lead to?; 3. Process: how are innovative ideas formed?; 4. Person: the personal resources that support innovation; 5. Press: where the innovation happens?; Part II. Managing Innovation: 6. Paradox: the contradictions of innovation; 7. Measuring the building blocks of innovation; 8. Innovation and organizational performance; 9. Managing the paradoxes of innovation; 10. General conclusions.

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• Authors: Arthur Cropley, Arthur J. Cropley, Arthur J. (Universitat Hamburg) Cropley, David Cropley, David H. Cropley, David H. (University of South Australia) Cropley, David H. Cropley Cropley, Cropley Arthur J., Cropley David H.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107459175
• ISBN: 978-1-107-45917-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology, Business innovation, Organizational theory & behaviour, Occupational and industrial psychology, Organizational theory and behaviour