Handbook of Research Methods on Creativity

Edited by Viktor Dörfler, University of Strathclyde Business School, UK and Marc Stierand, Institute of Business Creativity (IBC), Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland

'A comprehensive, insightful and informative guide to the elusive concept of creativity and how to research it. A must for all organizational researchers.'--Catherine Cassell, University of Birmingham, UK

• Contents:IntroductionViktor Dörfler and Marc Stierand1.Evolution of a Research Program on CreativityRobert J. Sternberg2.Subjectivity in the Creativity ResearchMark A. Runco3.It's All About Context: Research Methods of the Multi-Context Framework of Creative LeadershipRonit Kark, Olga Epitropaki and Charalampos Mainemelis4.A Bourdieusian perspective on studying creativityMarie-Léadre Gomez and Isabelle Bouty5.Reflections on the Ontological Mythologies of CreativityAlexander Kofinas and Sandar Win6.Role of Intuition in Creativity Research – Open AgendaMarta Sinclair and Fabrizio Maimone7.Abductive Reasoning, Creativity and the Logic of IntuitionEugene Sadler-Smith and Tim Wray8.A process-philosophical approach to researching creativity-in-practiceRobert Chia9.Creativity between the lines: creative problem-solving in multi-level survey researchNicole Rosenkranz and Michiel Tempelaar10.A pragmatic inquiry into creativity theoriesLaureline Chiapello11.The Consensual Assessment TechniqueJohn Baer12.The Story of Storytelling: How Walter Benjamin might approach a creative research method?David M. Boje13.Ethnography of creativity: looking through a Practice lensChristian Grahle and Paul Hibbert14.The Importance of Case Studies and the Evolving Systems ApproachMichael Hanchett Hanson and Vlad Petre Glăveanu15.Metaphor – Key to Enhancing Meta-Creativity and Researcher ReflexivityHeather Cairns-Lee16.Rich picture: a systems technique for studying creativityJosé-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón17.Creative Confidence Beliefs: A Closer LookRonald A. Beghetto and Maciej Karwowski18.Meta-analytic research on creativity: Challenges and SolutionsSelcuk Acar, Uzeyir Ogurlu and Mark A. Runco19.On a scale from 1-5… Creativity Survey ScalesKerrie Unsworth and Mark Robinson20.Creativity as a Driver of Innovation: Measuring the Impact of Human Capital in OrganisationsDavid H. Cropley and Arthur J. Cropley21.Creativity Equals Creativity – Or Does It? How Creativity is Measured Influences Our Understanding of CreativityRoni Reiter-Palmon and Madison Schoenbeck22.Leading Creative Efforts: Historiometric and Experimental MethodsMichael D. Mumford and Cory Higgs23.Verbal protocol analysis as a tool to understand the creative processPaul T. Sowden, Andrew Pringle and Matthew Peacock24.A Methodological Essay on the Application of Social Sequence Analysis to the Study of Creative TrajectoriesGiovanni Formilan, Simone Ferriani and Gino Cattani25.Necessary Condition Analysis in Creativity ResearchJan Dul, Maciej Karwowski and James KaufmanIndex