The purpose of this paper is to develop practical theory for predicting whether different categories of strategic IT experiments – trials of innovative information technologies within established organizations – lead to varying degrees of organizational renewal. A new framework of categories of strategic IT experiments is developed. We propose that the most innovative strategic IT experimen...

Classes on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship are becoming quite popular at universities throughout the world. However, it is not easy for business students to get involved to innovative activities, especially patent application. The present study investigated how to enhance business students’ intention to participate in innovative activities and which incentives universities should c...

Global organizations necessarily operate in different countries with differing time zones, making face-to-face creativity costly in terms of travel and time expended. Yet for many other types of tasks, organizations would not hesitate to collaborate via e-mail, bulletin boards, file sharing, and other low-cost, readily available asynchronous media. Asynchronous e-collaboration is defined as col...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of tacit knowledge within innovative organizations. It addresses what organizations can do to promote knowledge sharing in order to improve successful innovation. Compared to available research material on explicit knowledge, the use of tacit knowledge within companies is relatively unexplored. The use of tacit knowledge is assessed with...

Building on the social exchange theory and rule of reciprocity, this study examines effect servant leadership employees' extra-role behaviors (innovative work behavior, organizational citizenship creativity) in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) context. In model, we examined engagement as a mediator. Data were collected two waves from 309 employees complemented by their supervisors' evaluations. W...

Artistic creativity can be defined as the ability to challenge established academic representations or tastes, and to produce both innovative and esthetic works. Here, we investigate the influence of alcoholic dementia on creativity by describing the case of the famous painter Leo Schnug. It is clear that Schnug's motor and psychic disorders had a dramatic influence on his late artistic output....

One way to improve access to education is to make use of the World-Wide Web, and already there is a great deal of material on the Web intended specifically for education. However, much of it is unexciting and would not encourage creativity or imagination in those studying it. This paper shows that by taking ideas from e-commerce, where effective and innovative use has been made of the Web, it i...

Now, more than ever, software development requires innovative thinking. In the age of the Internet the challenge has shifted from writing the code to identifying and evaluating new ideas, processes and applications. Creating Software is one of the most creative activities that humans undertake. The main limitation in software is the Human Imagination, and the limits on that are all self imposed...

This paper investigates the forces that influence creativity in the video games industry. We adopt a qualitative approach to guide the development of grounded theory across multiple levels of analysis, including the industry (consisting of multiple actors), organizational, and individual creator levels. Our study shows that business and production interests currently drive the rationalization o...