Innovation is seen by many organizations as the next frontier to be managed in order to gain a competitive advantage and remain sustainable. Innovation management shares much in common with knowledge management, both being recognized as involving a resource, which resides in individuals, can be valueadded and transferred via (teams of) people, is difficult to capture, is highly contextual, and ...

Although a plethora of studies have examined the antecedents of creativity, empirical studies exploring the role of individual behaviors in relation to creativity are relatively scarce. Drawing on the model of perspective taking, this study examines the relationship between help-giving during creative problem solving process and employee creativity. Specifically, we test perspective taking as a...

The twenty first century has brought paradigm shift in the universities. These days universities are supposed to be innovative, self-sustainable and self-reliant. Researchers investigating factors that can instill innovation creativity Since Ethical Leadership boosts Innovative Working Behavior within organizations, therefore its role should examined. This empirical study examined associations ...

Until 1990 there was a dearth of research on creativity/innovation in the jield of IS. In that year, the HICSS mini-track on Creativity/Innovation in IS Organizations was initiated The mini-track Call For Papers specified a framework for research that generated 32 papers, covering the full spectrum of IS activity. This paper proposes a second generation framework for research, to stimulate more...

The content of educational cluster based on conception of Mental Integrative Metasystemic Innovative Methodology (MIMIM) is presented. The basic elements of methodology and technology of creativity with new sense are presented.

Information technology (IT) support for managing competence is based on a rationalistic view of competence. While these competence systems might work in rationalistic organizations, we argue that in more dynamic settings, such as in innovative organizations, the interest-informed actions that capture the emergent competencies of tomorrow require different types of IT support. We theorize about ...

Design is a ubiquitous activity. People can be creative in any sphere of life pursuing design activities. For the last decade, we have been engaged in the development of domain-oriented design environments to enhance individual creativity in a variety of different design domains. Based on the fact that the individual human mind is limited, extensions to our earlier approaches are presented, des...

This study investigated the relationship between time pressure and creativity with a new method for examining daily thoughts, experiences, and events in organizations. Daily electronic questionnaires were obtained over periods of up to 30 weeks from 177 individuals in seven companies as they worked on projects requiring creativity. Narrative reports of events occurring in those projects were us...