Agents in creative enterprises are embedded in networks that inspire, support, and evaluate their work. Here, we investigate how the mechanisms by which creative teams self-assemble determine the structure of these collaboration networks. We propose a model for the self-assembly of creative teams that has its basis in three parameters: team size, the fraction of newcomers in new productions, an...

Interactive art questions relationships between creator and audience in a direct and provocative manner. Our goal was to explore how interactive art either promotes or constrains audiences’ sense of creative involvement, and satisfaction. We provide a brief background on interactive art before describing an interactive music installation, Terpsichore, designed to test two hypotheses in an exper...

This research aims to examines the influence mechanism of complementary fit on repatriates’ innovation behavior. This research builds a theoretical model on complementary fit, knowledge transfer and innovation behavior, recognizes the moderating variable, creative self-efficacy. The empirical analysis data is collected from 260 repatriates from Multinational Corporations Xi’ an, Nanjing, Shangh...

für Naturforschung in cooperation with the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Dieses Werk wurde im Jahr 2013 vom Verlag Zeitschrift für Naturforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. digitalisiert und unter folgender Lizenz veröffentlicht: Creative Commons Namen...

This paper investigates creativity focusing on the nature of abductive reasoning, as originally formulated by Peirce, situating it in the context of the theory of self-organization. An ancient question will be addressed: is it appropriate to investigate creative processes from a mechanistic perspective or do they involve subjective elements which cannot in principle be investigated from a mecha...

We theorized and tested the conditions under which cognitive team diversity is positively related to individual team member creativity. Hierarchical linear modeling results using 316 employees on 68 teams from Chinese companies indicated that a team member’s creative self-efficacy moderated the relationship between cognitive team diversity and individual creativity: this relationship was positi...

The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Are Micro Firms Different?* We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different from other firms in terms...

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