Creativity

Laura Lucia Parolin and Carmen Pellegrinelli

Chapter 41 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 157-161 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: A conventional definition of creativity involves expressing an original idea recognized by the experts. It also conceptualizes creativity as a hint antecedent to innovation. This entry proposes to blur the boundaries between creativity and innovation by mobilizing recent processual approaches to creativity and enriching it with the epistemology of practice perspective. It shows how creativity and innovation can be seen as emerging from situated sociomaterial encounters. Creativity is not a mental invention but emerges as a variation or transformation within the recurrences of a specific practice where sociomaterial encounters take place. The transformation depends on the quality of the encounters, which are connected to their professional knowledge/knowing, potentialities, and practice's negotiated direction. The approach accounts for the contribution of humans and nonhumans in developing new products in creative industries, research and development departments, or any other place (within and across organizations) where novelty emerges within specific practices.

Keywords: Creativity; Organizational creativity; Processual OC; Epistemology of practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306442
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