Creativity at Work: A Festschrift in Honor of Teresa Amabile

by Roni Reiter-Palmon (Editor), Colin M. Fisher (Editor), Jennifer S. Mueller (Editor)

Overview

This book brings together leading scholars in the field of creativity to provide an overview and examination of the work of Teresa Amabile, a pioneer of research on organizational creativity. The authors explore Dr. Amabile’s contributions to the modern study of creativity in organizations and her influence on current research. Further, they also reflect on how her work might be used to advance future research, particularly in the areas of componential theory and its extension as well as the consensual assessment technique. The contributors include both eminent and emerging scholars and their diverse backgrounds can be seen to reflect the breadth of the impact of Teresa Amabile’s work across the areas of the social psychology of creativity, creativity measurement, and application of this knowledge to understanding creativity and innovation in the workplace. 
This book will provide an invaluable resource to students and scholars of social psychology, creativity studies, industrial and organizational psychology, business and management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030613112
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	01/04/2021
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Innovation in Organizations
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Roni Reiter-Palmon is Professor of Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology, and Director of Innovation at the Center for Collaboration Science at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA. She is also the Series Editor of Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Innovation in Organizations.
Colin M. Fisher is Associate Professor of Organisations and Innovation at University College London, UK. His research deals with leading, helping, and coaching teams and individuals in situations requiring collective creativity, improvisation, and effective decision-making, with a focus on how temporal issues shape group processes and outcomes. 
Jennifer S. Mueller is Associate Professor of Management at the University of San Diego, USA. Her research examines implicit beliefs that harm effective collaboration, assessments of leadership potential, as well as the recognition of creative ideas.

Table of Contents

A festschrift for Teresa Amabile: An introduction; Roni Reiter-Palmon, Jennifer Muller, Colin M. Fisher.- Chapter 1. Brilliant and Benevolent: The Optimism of Teresa Amabile’s Legacy for Creativity in Organizations; Justin M. Berg.- Chapter 2. An Inspiration to Study Inspiration; Regina Conti, Brynn April.- Chapter 3. The Social Psychology of Creativity Skills: A Re-conceptualization of the Componential Model; Johnathan Cromwell.- Chapter 4. A Winding Road: Teresa Amabile and Creative Process Research; Colin M. Fisher, Poornika Ananth, Ozumcan Demir Caliskan.- Chapter 5. Teresa M. Amabile: Thought Leadership in Organizational Creativity Research; Lucy L. Gilson.- Chapter 6. Memes, Meaning and Creativity: A “Found” Interpretation of 5 Decades of Teresa Amabile’s Research; Spencer Harrison.- Chapter 7. So Much More than a Graduate School Mentor!; Beth Hennessey.- Chapter 8. Going back to the drawing board until the foundation of creative workis sound; Giovanni B. Moneta.- Chapter 9. Towards (eventually) expanding the componential model: Integrating theory on the bias against creativity; Jennifer Mueller.- Chapter 10. Local Safety versus Global Risk: Models of the Creative Work Environment; Michael D. Mumford, Mark W. Fichtel.- Chapter 11. Reflections on the impact of Teresa Amabile on the development of the field of group creativity; Paul B. Paulus.- Chapter 12. An intellectual journey: The path from creativity in context to a social network perspective of creativity; Jill Perry-Smith.- Chapter 13. Meaningful work and creativity: Mapping out a way forward; Gregory Fetzer, Michael G. Pratt.- Chapter 14. Polarities in Creativity: Revisiting Amabile’s Componential Model; Gerard J. Puccio.- Chapter 15. The Consensual Assessment Technique: Refinement and Further Development; Roni Reiter-Palmon.- Chapter 16. A Hobby Out of Control: Festschrift for Teresa Amabile; Mark A. Runco.- Chapter 17. The Importance of the Componential Model of Creativity; Christina E. Shalley.- Chapter 18. The Two Social Psychologies of Creativity: From Historiometric to Experimental (and the Latter to Stay); Dean Keith Simonton.- Chapter 19. The Legacy of Inner Work Life in the Progress Principle; Jeff Steiner.- Chapter 20. Four Giant Steps Forward: A Tribute to Teresa Amabile and How She Transformed the Field of Creativity; Robert J. Sternberg.- Chapter 21. Coherence, Courage, and Community: Lessons Learned from Professor Teresa Amabile; Jing Zhou.- Chapter 22. A Labor of Love: Reflections on a Research Career, with Love; Teresa M. Amabile.