Inquisitiveness in Organisational Life: Finding Things in Unusual Places

Ananda Wickramasinghe (), Helan R. Gamage () and Ayon Chakraborty ()
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Ananda Wickramasinghe: Sydney Business School
Helan R. Gamage: James Cook University
Ayon Chakraborty: James Cook University

Chapter 45 in Proceedings of the International Conference on Managing the Asian Century, 2013, pp 405-411 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this conceptual paper is to explore organizational approaches to creativity and innovation. This makes organization more competitive and sustainable in complex world of business. In this study, we review existing literature on creativity and innovation, and provide an account on the state of the art. Organizational culture and management strategy nurture creativity and innovation is characterized by organizational leadership, strategies, policies, processes, systems and structure. The culture of organization should promote and practice harmony and tolerance by giving employees the freedom to take risks and explore new ideas and allocating considerable amount of time for their personal experiments within the organization.

Keywords: Innovation; Leadership; Flexible structure; Culture; Small and medium business; Sustainability; Creativity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-4560-61-0_45

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