Handbook of Research on Creativity and Innovation

Edited by Jing Zhou, Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University and Elizabeth D. Rouse, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Organization, Boston College, US

'This outstanding Handbook brings together leading scholars who show us, across different levels of analysis and methodological approaches, how creativity and innovation relate to topics as diverse as leadership, social networks, and loneliness. The intersection of different research trajectories is woven throughout. The book is structured to provide foundations for understanding existing research, social contexts in which creativity and innovation occur, and directions for future work. This volume captures the current universe of leading ideas concerning a vital research area.'

• Contents:Introduction: shared foundations and diverse inquiries for advancingcreativity and innovation research 1Jing Zhou and Elizabeth D. RousePART I FOUNDATIONS OF CREATIVITY ANDINNOVATION RESEARCH1 Conducting rigorous research on individual creativity 12Christina E. Shalley and Amy P. Breidenthal2 The dual pathway to creativity model: implications forworkplace creativity 28Bernard A. Nijstad, Eric F. Rietzschel, Matthijs Baas, and CarstenK.W. De Dreu3 Team creativity and innovation 49Daan van Knippenberg and Inga J. Hoever4 Creativity and standardization: tension, complementarity, and paradox 67Robert C. Litchfield, Yuna S.H. Lee, and Lucy L. GilsonPART II THE ROLE OF SOCIAL INFLUENCES,INTERACTIONS, AND PROCESSES INCREATIVITY AND INNOVATION5 Social network and creativity 82Ronald S. Burt6 Creative leadership across contexts 105Charalampos Mainemelis, Olga Epitropaki, and Ronit Kark7 Leading groups and teams towards successful innovation 129Eric F. Rietzschel, Diana Rus, and Barbara Wisse8 Teams as synthesizers: the role of constraints in the process ofcreative synthesis 156Sarah Harvey and Poornika Ananth9 Family and its influences on work creativity 181Nora Madjar10 Creativity connects: how the creative process fosters socialconnection and combats loneliness at work 204Jack A. Goncalo, Joshua H. Katz, Lynne C. Vincent, Verena Krause,and Shiyu YangPART III STRETCHING HOW WE MAKE SENSE OF ANDSTUDY CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION11 Creative spirals: when ideas beget ideas 225Andrew Hargadon12 Creativity over the career 245Pier Vittorio Mannucci13 Unraveling the bias against novelty: guiding the study of ourtendency to desire but reject the new 267Jennifer Mueller and Yidan Yin14 Who is the creator? How uncertainty, threat and implicitmodels create paradoxical evaluations of creativity 290Kerrie L. Unsworth and Aleksandra Luksyte15 Using qualitative methods to generate divergence in creativity theory 309Elizabeth D. Rouse and Michael G. PrattIndex 330