Sub-theme 19: [hybrid] Creativity and Imperfection: Unveiling the Potential of Experimentation and Mistakes
Convenors:
Pier Vittorio Mannucci, Bocconi University, Italy
Barbara Imperatori, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Christina E. Shalley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, TC.4.13
Dealing with Uncertainty and Imperfection
Chair: Pier Vittorio Mannucci
Lucilaine Pascuci, Diórgenes F. Mamédio and Victor Meyer Jr.
Firefighters in action: how strategic improvisation enables agile and creative responsiveness in complex adaptive systems
Tuukka Toivonen, Melanie Hecker and Lilian Weiermann
Creating with living materials: What can we learn from regenerative creativity and ‘organic imperfections’?
Brian Lucas and Celia Chui
Idea vitality: An inductive study of idea elaboration
in improv comedy groups
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, TC.4.13
Creative Barriers
Chair: Christina Shalley
Kimberly S. Jaussi
It
takes a village: Embracing risk-taking and failure, barn-raising ideas, and
encouraging risk-taking in others
Piotr Makowski and Claudio Biscaro
Stickiness of concepts and creativity. Understanding the barriers to innovative theory building
Carola Wandres, Christian Garaus and Christopher Lettl
Novelty, dysfunctional decision-making, and the role of experience in the idea selection process
Session III: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, TC.4.13
Building Creative Organizations
Chair: Pier Vittorio Mannucci
Ignasi Capdevila, Barbara Slavich and M. Pilar Opazo
Hungry minds: generating a state of permanent organizational curiosity for creativity
Hye Jung Eun and Roy Chua
Pressure to be creative: How organizational creativity pressure influences employee work engagement
Gamze Koseoglu
Ethical leadership and team creativity: A social identity theory and lay epistemic theory perspective
Viviana Meschitti and Dorra Jebali
A practice-oriented approach to study creativity in organisations
This session will end at 10:40, rather than 10.30, to allow every presenter an equitable amount of time.
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, TC.4.13
Creative Individuals
Chair: Barbara Imperatori
Nicolas T. Deuschel
Different forms of creativity? Regulatory focus & the role of individual cognitive processes on novelty and usefulness
Federico Magni, Pier Vittorio Mannucci and Beatrice Manzoni
Free to be creative: Sense of power benefits of network centrality for employee creativity
Mehrunisa Zafar and Marios Samdanis
Emotional numbness as a coping mechanism for creative individuals: Evidence from creative individuals working in fashion firms
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, TC.4.13
Beyond Idea Generation
Chair: Christina Shalley
Poornika Ananth and Spencer H. Harrison
Good artists copy, but great artists? Understanding idea borrowing in creative work
Francesca Mochi, Rita Bissola, Barbara Imperatori and Nora Madjar
Evaluating creative ideas: Personal mistakes and organizational imperfections
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, TC.4.13
Creative Spaces
Chair: Barbara Imperatori
Nadine Scholz, Marcela Miozzo and Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O
Experimental spaces as temporary entrepreneurial work environments for incubating wildcard ideas in corporate firms
Heidi Angell and Donatella De Paoli
How to foster creativity and innovation in everyday workspaces? – the case of cultural entrepreneurs
David W. Versailles and Valérie Mérindol
The micro-foundations of network conditions to foster serendipity: The case of open labs
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, TC.4.13
Creative Failure
Chair: Pier Vittorio Mannucci
Guy Parmentier, Hélène Michel and Zeinab Sheet
R.I.P. Innovation, how learning from failure impacts creative output
Valentina Forrer and Alessandro Narduzzo
Intelligent failure in organizations: Experimentation and creativity in Digital Transformation
Andrea Montefusco and Sara Lombardi
Testing experimentation and tolerance of mistakes under complex, ambiguous, and uncertain conditions: Preliminary evidence
from flight simulations