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 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, Gabrielle Lamont-Dobbin and Spencer 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 Strøm 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