A. J. Cropley

David Cropley

"Innovation is universally recognized as a key components of first world economies that is vital for continued prosperity. Innovation is driven by the generation of effective noveltyin other words, creativity. However, both in higher education and also in business and industry, insufficient effort is being made to encourage and develop creativity, with negative consequences for innovation. This is partly due to inadequate understanding of what creativity is and how it can be fostered. This book draws on complementary views of creativity and innovationas a business process and as a social-psychological modelto create a more detailed and more highly differentiated model which is capable of serving as a practical foundation for diagnosing, analyzing, optimizing and fostering creativity and innovation in a variety of organizational settings. It is built around a large number of case studies and down-to-earth examples, and offers many concrete suggestions for fostering what the authors call functional creativity."--Publisher's website.

A Diagnostic Approach for Higher Education and Organizations

Fostering Creativity

Arthur Cropley

Kreativität wird in der Regel als positives Merkmal beschrieben, das Wachstum und Erneuerung bringt. Sie wird allerdings nicht nur im positiven Sinne eingesetzt: Viele Straftaten weisen ein hohes Maß an effektiver Neuheit auf, d.h. sie sind kreativ. Dieses Buch präsentiert die wichtigsten psychologischen Konzepte, die notwendig sind, um solche einfallsreiche und erfinderische Verbrechen zu analysieren: die 4Ps der Kreativität (Person, Produkt, Prozess und Leistungsdruck [engl.: Press]) und die Phasen der Kreativität. Diese Konzepte werden dann mittels zweier Fallbeispiele (Gaunerei, Terrorismus) konkretisiert und Vorschläge für ihren Einsatz gemacht, um kreative Kriminalität zu bekämpfen.

David Cropley

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