Handbook of Research Methods on Creativity

by Viktor Dörfler (Editor), Marc Stierand (Editor)

Overview

This Handbook offers an insightful journey through the landscape of research methods used to study the phenomenon of creativity, addressing the maturation of creativity research and its methodological approaches.

Offering a methodological panorama for the global community of creativity researchers, contributors provide markers and viewpoints to better orient scholars and encourage reflection on how one might produce exceptional research on the burgeoning field of creativity. Chapters provide insights into a variety of methodological approaches, contemplating their benefits, limitations, scope of validity and ethical implications. As a contrast, sharp and to the point vignettes, similar to parables, are included to make the reader think.

Allowing space for both established methods and new approaches, this Handbook is crucial reading for researchers interested in creativity at all levels looking to adopt innovative methodological approaches and broaden their research horizons.

Contributors include: S. Acar, J. Baer, D.M. Boje, I. Bouty, H. Cairns-Lee, G. Cattani, R. Chia, L. Chiapello, A. Cropley, D. Cropley, J. Dul, S. Ferriani, G. Formilan, V. Glaveanu, M.-L. Gomez, M. Hanchett Hanson, P. Hibbert, R. Kark, J.C. Kaufman, A.K. Kofinas, C. Mainemelis, R. Reiter-Palmon, R. Robinson, N. Rosenkranz, M. Runco, M. Sinclair, P. Sowden, U. Ogurlu, M. Tempelaar, K. Unsworth

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786439642
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	07/14/2020
Series:	Handbooks of Research Methods in Management series
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Viktor Dörfler, University of Strathclyde Business School, UK and Marc Stierand, Institute of Business Creativity (IBC), Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland

Table of Contents

Contents:

Introduction
Viktor Dörfler and Marc Stierand

1. Evolution of a Research Program on Creativity
Robert J. Sternberg

2. Subjectivity in the Creativity Research
Mark A. Runco

3. It's All About Context: Research Methods of the Multi-Context Framework of Creative Leadership
Ronit Kark, Olga Epitropaki and Charalampos Mainemelis

4. A Bourdieusian perspective on studying creativity
Marie-Léadre Gomez and Isabelle Bouty

5. Reflections on the Ontological Mythologies of Creativity
Alexander Kofinas and Sandar Win

6. Role of Intuition in Creativity Research – Open Agenda
Marta Sinclair and Fabrizio Maimone

7. Abductive Reasoning, Creativity and the Logic of Intuition
Eugene Sadler-Smith and Tim Wray

8. A process-philosophical approach to researching creativity-in-practice
Robert Chia

9. Creativity between the lines: creative problem-solving in multi-level survey research
Nicole Rosenkranz and Michiel Tempelaar

10. A pragmatic inquiry into creativity theories
Laureline Chiapello

11. The Consensual Assessment Technique
John Baer

12. The Story of Storytelling: How Walter Benjamin might approach a creative research method?
David M. Boje

13. Ethnography of creativity: looking through a Practice lens
Christian Grahle and Paul Hibbert

14. The Importance of Case Studies and the Evolving Systems Approach
Michael Hanchett Hanson and Vlad Petre Glăveanu

15. Metaphor – Key to Enhancing Meta-Creativity and Researcher Reflexivity
Heather Cairns-Lee

16. Rich picture: a systems technique for studying creativity
José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón

17. Creative Confidence Beliefs: A Closer Look
Ronald A. Beghetto and Maciej Karwowski

18. Meta-analytic research on creativity: Challenges and Solutions
Selcuk Acar, Uzeyir Ogurlu and Mark A. Runco

19. On a scale from 1-5… Creativity Survey Scales
Kerrie Unsworth and Mark Robinson

20. Creativity as a Driver of Innovation: Measuring the Impact of Human Capital in Organisations
David H. Cropley and Arthur J. Cropley

21. Creativity Equals Creativity – Or Does It? How Creativity is Measured Influences Our Understanding of Creativity
Roni Reiter-Palmon and Madison Schoenbeck

22. Leading Creative Efforts: Historiometric and Experimental Methods
Michael D. Mumford and Cory Higgs

23. Verbal protocol analysis as a tool to understand the creative process
Paul T. Sowden, Andrew Pringle and Matthew Peacock

24. A Methodological Essay on the Application of Social Sequence Analysis to the Study of Creative Trajectories
Giovanni Formilan, Simone Ferriani and Gino Cattani

25. Necessary Condition Analysis in Creativity Research
Jan Dul, Maciej Karwowski and James Kaufman

Index

Editorial Reviews

'A comprehensive, insightful and informative guide to the elusive concept of creativity and how to research it. A must for all organizational researchers.'
—Catherine Cassell, University of Birmingham, UK

From the Publisher

‘A comprehensive, insightful and informative guide to the elusive concept of creativity and how to research it. A must for all organizational researchers.’

Catherine Cassell