Creative teams

Pasi Hirvonen

Chapter 40 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 153-156 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Team creativity and team functioning have increasingly been the focus of organizational research in recent decades. From an innovation management perspective, creative teams are important because they serve as one of the social arenas in which innovation is fostered. Most studies on creative teams prioritize an individualistic approach, emphasizing normative generalizations about effective team behaviour and identifying requirements for creative teamwork. However, a socio-cultural approach highlights the social processes that shape creative teams and the emergence of team creativity as a social and interactional phenomenon. In addition to a brief overview of the individualistic approach, this entry presents a socio-cultural approach as an alternative way of understanding creative teams. The conceptual overview and discussion are followed by an application of the socio-cultural approach, focusing on the emergence of team creativity as a social and interactional phenomenon.

Keywords: Creativity; Teams; Socio-cultural approach; Emergence; Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306442
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