Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation

Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation

by Dr Constantine Andriopoulos (Author), ProfessorPatrickMBDawson (Author)

Synopsis

I would urge anyone with an interest in managing organisations, whether they be students or practising managers, to buy this book - Bernard Burnes, Professor of Organisational Change, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester

Change is truly the one constant in business. As such, the ability to manage change and its drivers of innovation and creativity is essential. Thankfully, Andriopoulos and Dawson offer an exceptional treatise on this domain, insightful and engaging. I encourage management students at all levels to explore this work - Marianne W. Lewis, Director of Kolodzik Business Scholars, University of Cincinnati

Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation brings together comprehensive aspects of change management and creativity management, providing management and HR students with an accessible and wide-ranging resource for study, debate and inspiration.

Balancing theory with practice, this book looks at the human side of managing change and creativity, treating them as interdependent aspects of management and organizations.

Topics include:

- Historical overview of business practice and theory

- Understanding creativity and change

- Managing individuals, teams and nurturing creativity

- The creative economy and future of organizations

Features include:

- Coverage of all the important recent research in the field

- Real-life topical case studies taken from the Financial Times

- Interactive resources at the end of each chapter, including questions, exercises, topics for debate, recommended reading and web resources

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 392
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 19 Dec 2008

ISBN 10: 1412948533
ISBN 13: 9781412948531

Author Bio
Constantine Andriopoulos is a Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Cass Business School, City University London. He holds a PhD in Marketing from the University of Strathclyde and has previously worked at the University of Strathclyde, the University of Aberdeen, Brunel University and held a Chair in Strategy at Cardiff Business School. His research focuses on how organizational paradoxes enable innovation in a diverse range of contexts. In particular, he studies how companies in high-velocity markets can excel at both incremental (exploiting current capabilities) and discontinuous innovation (exploring into new space). He also studies the role of curiosity in organizational life. His research, funded by the Carnegie Trust and the Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity, has been published in leading academic journals such as Organization Science, Human Relations, Long Range Planning, European Journal of Marketing, International Small Business Journal, International Marketing Review, among others. Patrick Dawson is Professor of Change, Creativity and Innovation at the University of Adelaide and Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen. He holds a PhD in industrial sociology from the University of Southampton and during his early career, worked at the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh. He moved to Australia in the 1980s and took up a position at the University of Adelaide. In studying change in UK, Australia and New Zealand based organizations, Patrick has worked on a number of Australian Research Council (ARC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded projects in collaboration with scholars at other universities. He has examined change in a number of organizations including: Pirelli Cables, British Rail, General Motors, Hewlett Packard and the CSIRO. Since taking up the Salvesen Chair at Aberdeen he has held visiting professorships at Roskilde University, Lund University and the Danish Technical University in Denmark, an adjunct professorship at Monash University and a research professorship at the University of Wollongong in Australia.