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This book aims to recover the importance of creativity as a systemic phenomenon, meaning that creative efforts could be directed to improve quality of life for individuals as well as their environments. This work will be a vital tool for management researchers, career-driven students and practitioners.
List of contents
1 A history of creativity 2 Socio-cultural creativity 3 Other systems ideas to creativity 4 Creativity in knowledge ecologies 5 Practicing creativity : a self-ethnography 6 Governing creativity 7 Developing ethics for a creative living 8 Final reflections
About the author
José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón (systems engineer, MA, PhD, FHEA) is a Senior Lecturer in Technology and Information Management at the School of Management of Royal Holloway University of London, UK, and is also the co-founder of the Technology and Governance Network (TGN), an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners interested in studying links between technology and human emancipation. He has a long-standing interest in applied systems thinking. Prior to becoming an academic in the UK, he was an entrepreneur, software developer and project analyst in Colombia, his native country. He has published extensively in the use of systems thinking to explore complex situations in different realms of life.
Summary
This book aims to recover the importance of creativity as a systemic phenomenon, meaning that creative efforts could be directed to improve quality of life for individuals as well as their environments. This work will be a vital tool for management researchers, career-driven students and practitioners.
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"This book is beautifully composed in a style expressing José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón’s ethical sensitivity and self-reflective qualities. He engages with literature on different views of creativity and different conceptions of applied systems thinking, and proceeds to offer conceptual and practical guidance for nurturing creativity." — Norma Romm, Professor, Department of Adult Basic Education, University of South Africa
"Managing Creativity is an important contribution to the literature on creativity and innovation. It is both theoretically rich and practically oriented, integrating a wealth of material which will delight scholars as well as practitioners." — Alfonso Montuori, Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies
