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Creativity, Innovation, and Change Across Cultures (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture)

✍ Scribed by David D. Preiss (editor), Marcos Singer (editor), James C. Kaufman (editor)


Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Leaves
476
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


This book offers interdisciplinary, multicultural, and international perspectives on the interrelation between culture, innovation, change and creative forces. Its wide-ranging contributions present theoretical and empirical approaches and with reference to different domains across disciplines including psychology, education, social sciences, humanities, and engineering. The authors demonstrate how urgent social, environmental, technological, and economic challenges can benefit from individual, and community creativity to effect change.

In this volume, “culture” refers to sociocultural differences, educational culture, media culture, organizational culture, technological culture, ethnic differences within a culture, and digital culture. Its contributors offer fresh insights on how creativity, innovation, and change can propel us forward and offer hope for the future across these many different forms of culture. They offer both granular studies of creativity and innovation at work in particular contexts and macro-level discussion on how they affect organizational culture, the culture of a discipline and society at large.

This cross-cultural analysis of creativity, innovation and approaches to change will particularly appeal to practitioners and researchers in the fields of psychology, organizational behavior and education.

✦ Table of Contents


Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I: Educational and Developmental Explorations of Creativity, Innovation, and Change
1: The Never-Ending Innovativeness of Homo Sapiens
Origin and Emergence Timeline
Spoken Language
Written Language
Digital Language
Innovativeness: Timeline
Functional Properties and Acquisition
Spoken Language
Written Language
Digital Language
Innovativeness: Function and Acquisition
Biological Bases
Spoken Language
Written Language
Digital Language
Innovativeness: Biological Hardwiring
Wise Man’s Innovations
References
2: Supporting Innovation: Sociocultural and Developmental Considerations in the Assessment of Creativity
Assessing Creativity and the Potential to Innovate
Creativity
Innovation
Sociocultural Approaches to Creativity and Innovation
Perceptions of Sociocultural Contexts
Affective Components of Creativity and Innovation
Developmental Considerations
Creativity Assessment
Attitudes About Creativity
Specificity of Creative Processes
Levels of Creative Contributions
Creative Articulation
A Developmental Framework for Designing Creativity Assessment Systems
Conclusion
References
3: Innovation and Change Within Education
Introduction
How Attainment Varies and Changes at Different Levels
Variation in Raw Tests Scores Across the Five Levels
Variation in Change Scores Across the Five Levels
Countries
Districts
Schools
Classes and Teachers
Students/Pupils
Summary
How Would We Know If We Understand a System?
Evidence That Our Models Are Inadequate
Our Advances Have Been Methodological Not Substantive
How Can We Manage to Edge Forward in the Smog?
A Paradox
Conclusion
References
Part II: Creativity, Innovation, and Change in Organizations and Work
4: Creativity and Organizational Culture
Creativity and Organizational Culture
Organizational Culture
Organizational Culture and Creativity
Martins and Terblanche (2003)
Competing Values Framework
Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions
Conclusion
References
5: Strategic Considerations for Enhancing Creativity in the Firm
LEGO’s Strategy: Not to Die of Creativity Indigestion
Reinventing the Customer Connection
The Error of Distant Innovation
Creativity and Imitation in the Cola Wars
Coopetition
To Innovate or to Imitate?
Fail Fast, Fail Slow
The Concorde Fallacy
Conjectures and Refutations
Conclusions
References
6: Engineering Innovation: The Impact of Digital Transformation
Introduction
Change: The Driver of Innovation
Change: The Black Death
Change: The Industrial Revolution
Change: Electronics and Computers
Change: Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation
Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation
The Future of Work
Twenty-First-Century Engineering Innovation
What Do Engineers Do?
What Are the Core Activities of Engineering in This Sense?
The Soft Side of Engineering
The Technological Innovator (Engineer) of the Future
Conclusion
References
Part III: Sociocultural Explorations of Creativity, Innovation, and Change
7: Innovative Deception across Cultures
Dark Creativity and Dark Innovation
The Role of Deception
The Role of Culture in Deception (and Lying)
Motivators to Deceive across Cultures
Desperation
Asymmetry
Efficiency
Opportunity
Social Contagion
Dark Innovation across Cultures
Levels of Global Deception
Common Patterns of Deception across Cultures
Hanko Fraud
Navigating Innovative Deception in the Future
References
8: Creative Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Chinese and German Observations
Introduction
Crisis and Creativity
Implicit Theories of Creativity: Eastern and Western Perspectives
Different Types of Creativity
Methods
Participants and Procedures
Coding Scheme
Coding Process
Results
Reported Creative Activities of the Whole Sample
Comparison Between Countries
Comparison the Self-reported Creative Activities and Those of Others
Discussion
Limitations and Future Studies
Conclusion
References
9: Who’s Got Talent and How They Got it: How Culture and Media Might Shape (Creative) Mindsets
Implicit Theories of Abilities: Prove or Improve Your Talent
Cultural Differences in (Creative) Mindsets
Show if You Got Talent: Media and Implicit Theories About Abilities
Got or Growth Talent? The Mindsets Presented in Media Across Cultures
Conclusion
References
10: Theater History and Models of Creativity
Theater History and Models of Creativity
The Domain
Cross-cultural and Religious Influences on Historical Theater Domains
The Field
Religion as a Gatekeeper of Theater
The Individual
The Four C Model of Creativity
Little-c and Pro-C Contributions to Theater
Conclusion
References
11: Mind Wandering and Mindfulness During Innovation: An Outline and an Illustration in Poetry
From Maps to Systems in Human Intelligence
The Toolkit of the Mind
Types of Attentional Dispositions and States
Human Abilities Meet Mind Wandering and Mindfulness
Writing, Innovation, and Poetry
Conclusion
References
Part IV: Creativity and Innovation as a Vehicle for Cultural Change
12: A Mirror to the World: Art, Creativity, and Racial Bias
Art as a Mirror
A Mirror of Morality
A Mirror of Creativity and Culture
A Mirror of Bias
An Intersection of Art, Research, and Bias
Conclusion
References
13: Social Change and Creativity Change: How Creative Products and the Nature of Creativity Differ in Subsistence Ecologies with High Mortality and Commercial Ecologies with Low Mortality
History of Creativity in a Maya Community in Chiapas, Mexico
Community Creativity
Family Creativity
A Self-Directed Process of Creativity
Conclusions
Changing Creativity in the Immigration Process: Ethiopian Immigrants to Israel
Continuity: African Values in the Sculptures
Change
Goals of the Research
Nature of Creativity in the Two Ecologies
Method
The Participants in Context
Data Sources
Selection of the Sculptures
Results
Subsistence Practices at the Time of Emigration
Continuity and Change in Clay Sculpture
Depiction of Education in the Family and Respect for the Authority of Elders
A Gendered Learning Environment Reflects Gendered Subsistence Roles
Gender Roles: Social Change and Persistence
Changing Patterns of Education, Work, and Life
Racial Prejudice Complicates Cultural Loss and Acculturation to a New Ecology and Set of Cultural Values
Other African Values and their Israeli Transformations
Procreation
Procreation Versus Romantic Love
Family Togetherness and Sharing
Conclusion
General Conclusion
References
14: Cultural Creativity: A Componential Model
The Cultural Context of Creativity
Elements of Cultural Creativity
The Ability Component
Process-Based Abilities
Knowledge-Based Abilities
Motivation
The Rusted-Iron Individual
The Granite Individual
The Amber Individual
The Opal Individual
The Cubic Zirconium Individual
The Slightly Imperfect (SI) Diamond Individual
The Lead Individual
The Diamond in the Rough Individual
Personality
Environment
Conclusion
References
Part V: Creativity, Innovation, and Change Looking Forward
15: How Technology Is Changing Creativity
Brute Force Versus Reinforcement Learning: Closing in on the Human Brain
Human Creativity Is also Limited
Enhancing Creativity by Living on the “Edge”
How Digital Technology Can Block Human Creativity
When AI Becomes the Competition
Mass Production: Creating Competition Today
The Effects of Increased Access on the Human Creative Process
Working Hand in Hand with AI
The Potential of Co-creativity to Offset Limitations in Both Humans and Digital Technologies
AI Can Inform the Human Creative Process
How AI Can Counteract Factors That Decrease Human Creativity
AI as a Creative Guide
Conclusion
References
16: Uncertainty as a Lever for Change and Innovation
Different Types and Encounters with Uncertainty
Uncertainty as a Lever for Change and Innovation
Possible Outcomes of Engaging with Uncertainty
Mini-c Outcomes
Little-c Outcomes
Pro-c Outcomes
Big-C Outcomes
Conclusion
References
17: Innovating in the Post-Anthropocene Era: A New Framework for Creativity
Introduction: Transition Towards Post-Anthropocene
Rethinking the Nature of Creativity for Innovation
Creativity Components in the Post-Anthropocentric Scenario
Digital Technologies as an Agent of Creation
Re-birth of Ecological Intelligence
Anticipating the Impacts of Digital Innovation
A New Framework of Creativity to Innovate in the Post-Anthropocene
Digital Creativity
Regenerative Creativity
Futures Thinking as the Element of Balance
Ethics and Values: As Transversal Drivers
Conclusion
References
Index


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