Creative Success in Teams

Today's workers spend upwards of 80% of their time collaborating and teams have become the fundamental unit within organizations.  Creative Success in Teams summarizes for practitioners and researchers what drives team creativity.  Utilizing research from psychology, organizational behavior/management, business, and education, the book discusses how best to start, manage, and foster creativity in team environments, how to encourage participation and collaboration, what makes for the most creative team, and how best to lead and evaluate creative teams.

Summarizes creativity research from psychology, education, and businessIdentifies how best to form a team for creative outputDiscusses how to foster team participation and collaborationIncludes multicultural, interdisciplinary, and diverse teams

1. Managing the key processes for team innovation Paul B. Paulus, Lauren E. Coursey, and Jared B. Kenworthy

2. Creative success in collaboration: A sociocultural perspective Vlad Petre Glaveanu, Ingunn Johanne Ness, and Ludvig Johan Torp Rasmussen

3. Leading for team creativity: Managing people and processes Roni Reiter-Palmon

4. Fostering creativity in interdisciplinary and intercultural teams: The importance of team building and team management Min Tang and Joel T. Schmidt

5. How diversity promotes team creativity: Two bumpy roads to collective inspiration Inga J. Hoever and Daan van Knippenberg

6. Don’t call it collaboration! Reframing creative success in teams from the perspective of participatory creativity Edward P. Clapp

7. Factors fostering creativity in start-up teams Jan Kratzer and Matthias Mrozewski

8. Mixed feelings: How shared and unshared affect impact team creative success Kyle J. Emich and Li Lu

9. Who (and how many) made this? How crediting authorship affects creativity evaluations Colin M. Fisher, Janice Sanchez, James Berry, and Wen-Xin Xie

10. Collectively creating music—Creativity in rock bands Alexander Pundt

11. Team creativity as a form of political action: The case of Liberate Tate Natalia Korchagina and Charalampos Mainemelis

12. An interdisciplinary view on team creativity: Toward integration across fields Alexander S. McKay, Roni Reiter-Palmon, and James C. Kaufman