Crises, Creativity and Innovation

Zorana Ivcevic, Roni Reiter-Palmon, Min Tang, Magdalena G. Grohman

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9783031617812
• eBook ISBN: 9783031617829
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Psychology

This book aims to provide a better understanding of the different practices of creativity and innovation under crisis situations. Drawing on theories and studies by scholars in psychology, education, and organizational behavior, this edited collection brings together renowned international experts to explore the active and reactive adaptations to the transformations caused by crises. It discusses how abrupt changes in personal, social, political, economic, or environmental affairs are an integral part of our individual and social lives, which drive people and organizations to adapt and change.

With flexibility, adaptability, and problem-solving at the core of its nature, creativity and innovation have the potential to help people cope with harsh and uncertain circumstances caused by crises. This book delves into the positive relationship between the experience of crisis and creativity and innovation, presenting theoretical inquiries, empirical studies, and their practical implications for a constructive shift in crisis management, coping mechanisms, and individual and societal wellbeing. A must read for researchers in psychology, philosophy, sociology, economy and politics, interested in crisis and disaster studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. How Crises May Relate to Creativity and Innovation: An Introduction
• 2. Conflict, Creativity, and Crisis
• 3. Novelty and Usefulness Are Not Enough: What Matters More Is Creative Quality
• 4. Ways out of the Crisis: Mapping Possibility Spaces
• 5. Creative Agency in Crisis: Ten Questions, Ten Answers
• 6. Clamming Up or Opening Up During Crises: What Makes People Antisocial Versus Prosocial as a Basis for Creativity?
• 7. Big Challenges and New Solutions: When Students’ (Unpleasant) Feelings Are Used for Good
• 8. Resilience, Creativity, Crisis, and Innovation: The Use of Art-Making During the Covid-19 Pandemic in an International Summer Collaboration for Art Therapy Students in Mexico, the United States, and Israel
• 9. The Crisis of Misinformation and Dark Creativity
• 10. Leading for Creativity and Innovation During Crisis
• 11. Navigating the New Globalization Crisis through Innovation and Change Management: An Examination of the STRA.TECH.MAN–R.A.S.I. Framework
• 12. SMEs COVID-19 Experiences through a Liminality Lens
• 13. How to Open the Window of Opportunity to Social Innovation in Response to Crisis? Case Studies from China
• 14. Creativity and Crisis: From Possibilities to Making Them Happen
• Back Matter