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Handbook of Research Methods on Creativity
This Handbook offers an insightful journey through the landscape of research methods used to study the phenomenon of creativity. Offering a methodological panorama for the global community of creativity researchers, contributors provide markers and waypoints to better orient scholars and encourage reflection on how one might produce exceptional research on the burgeoning field of creativity.
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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.
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.
Critical Acclaim
‘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
– Catherine Cassell, University of Birmingham, UK
Contributors
Contributors: 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. Glăveanu, 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
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
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
