Creativity, Innovation, and Change Across Cultures

by David D. Preiss (Editor), Marcos Singer (Editor), James C. Kaufman (Editor)

Overview

This book offers interdisciplinary, multicultural, and international perspectives on the interrelation between culture, innovation, change and creative forces. Its wide-ranging contributions present theoretical and empirical approaches and with reference to different domains across disciplines including psychology, education, social sciences, humanities, and engineering. The authors demonstrate how urgent social, environmental, technological, and economic challenges can benefit from individual, and community creativity to effect change.

In this volume, “culture” refers to sociocultural differences, educational culture, media culture, organizational culture, technological culture, ethnic differences within a culture, and digital culture. Its contributors offer fresh insights on how creativity, innovation, and change can propel us forward and offer hope for the future across these many different forms of culture. They offer both granular studies of creativity and innovation atwork in particular contexts and macro-level discussion on how they affect organizational culture, the culture of a discipline and society at large.

This cross-cultural analysis of creativity, innovation and approaches to change will particularly appeal to practitioners and researchers in the fields of psychology, organizational behavior and education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031282065
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	07/26/2023
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

David D. Preiss is Professor of Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Professor Preiss is the author of more than 50 papers and chapters in the fields of cultural psychology and educational psychology. He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He is also the author of five collections of poetry.

Marcos Singer is Professor of Operations Management, Dean of the MBA at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Professor Singer is the author of more than 60 papers and chapters in management. He is also a consultant and director of some of the largest companies and institutions in Chile.

James C. Kaufman is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut, USA. He is the author/editor of more than 50 books and 300 papers. Professor Kaufman co-founded two major journals, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts and Psychology of Popular Media Culture.

Table of Contents

Part I Educational and Developmental Explorations of Creativity, Innovation, and Change.- 1 The Never-Ending Innovativeness of Homo Sapiens.- 2 Supporting Innovation: Sociocultural and Developmental Considerations in the Assessment of Creativity.- 3 Innovation and Change Within Education.- Part II Creativity, Innovation, and Change in Organizations and Work.- 4 Creativity and Organizational Culture.- 5 Strategic Considerations for Enhancing Creativity in the Firm.- 6 Engineering Innovation: The Impact of Digital Transformation.- Part III Sociocultural Explorations of Creativity, Innovation, and Change.- 7 Innovative Deception across Cultures.- 8 Creative Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Chinese and German Observations.- 9 Who’s Got Talent and How They Got it: How Culture and Media Might Shape (Creative) Mindsets.- 10 Theater History and Models of Creativity.- 11 Mind Wandering and Mindfulness During Innovation: An Outline and an Illustration in Poetry.- Part IV Creativity and Innovation as a Vehicle for Cultural Change.- 12 A Mirror to the World: Art, Creativity, and Racial Bias.- 13 Social Change and Creativity Change: How Creative Products and the Nature of Creativity Differ in Subsistence Ecologies with High Mortality and Commercial Ecologies with Low Mortality.- 14 Cultural Creativity: A Componential Model.- Part V Creativity, Innovation, and Change Looking Forward.- 15 How Technology Is Changing Creativity.- 16 Uncertainty as a Lever for Change and Innovation.- 17 Innovating in the Post-Anthropocene Era: A New Framework for Creativity.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“​At the intersection of creativity, innovation and culture lies a sweet spot that offers insights into humankind's past and future. Spanning multiple dimensions of culture including societal, organizational and digital facets, this edited book covers a wide-range of domains, including art, theater, engineering, commercial products and services. To "think out of the box", it is essential to think about the cultural boxes in which we live.” (Todd Lubart, Professor of Psychology, Université Paris Cité, President of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI))

“The complex nature of creativity and innovation, and the intimate relationships they hold with culture broadly defined is skilfully exposed in this very insightful and readable collection of chapters. Each contributor presents their contextualised perspective on these issues, nuanced by important social and cultural concepts and scientific learnings that continue to evolveand change over time. This book provides a timely reminder of what creativity means for us as a species and in our complex roles as both local and global citizens.” (Damian P Birney, School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Australia)