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ORGANIZING CREATIVITY IN THE INNOVATION JOURNEY

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS

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• Howard E. Aldrich, University of North Carolina, USA

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• Silvia Dorado Banacloche, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

• Christine Beckman, University of Southern California, USA

• Marya Besharov, Oxford University, UNITED KINGDOM

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• Rich Dejordy, California State University, USA

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• Nina Granqvist, Aalto University School of Business, FINLAND

• Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta, CANADA

• Stine Grodal, Northeastern University, USA

• Markus A. Hoellerer, University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

• Ruthanne Huising, emlyon business school, FRANCE

• Candace Jones, University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM

• Sarah Kaplan, University of Toronto, CANADA

• Brayden G. King, Northwestern University, USA

• Matthew S. Kraatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Tom Lawrence, Oxford University, UNITED KINGDOM

• Xiaowei Rose Luo, Insead, FRANCE

• Johanna Mair, Hertie School, GERMANY

• Christopher Marquis, Cornell University, USA

• Renate Meyer, Vienna University, AUSTRIA

• William Ocasio, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Nelson Phillips, Imperial College London, UNITED KINGDOM

• Prateek Raj, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, INDIA

• Marc Schneiberg, Reed College, USA

• Marc-David Seidel, University of British Columbia, CANADA

• Paul Spee, University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA

• Paul Tracey, Cambridge University, UNITED KINGDOM

• Kerstin Sahlin, Uppsala University, SWEDEN

• Sarah Soule, Stanford University, USA

• Eero Vaara, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM

• Marc Ventresca, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM

• Maxim Voronov, York University, CANADA

• Filippo Carlo Wezel USI Lugano, SWITZERLAND

• Melissa Wooten, Rutgers University, USA

• April Wright, University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA

• Meng Zhao, Nanyang Business School & Renmin University, CHINA

• Enying Zheng, Peking University, CHINA

• Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 75

ORGANIZING CREATIVITY IN THE INNOVATION JOURNEY

EDITED BY

ELKE SCHUESSLER

Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

PATRICK COHENDET

HEC Montreal, Canada

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SILVIYA SVEJENOVA

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

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Contents

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List of Contributors

About the Contributors

Hille C. Bruns is Assistant Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at Groningen University, the Netherlands. She conducts ethnographic research into expert practice, collaboration in diverse teams, organizational learning and innovation, and digital technologies. Her work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal and Human Relations.

Gino Cattani is Full Professor of Management and Organization at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He received his PhD in Business Administration from the Wharton School of Management, University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on creativity, innovation, and market/industry formation and evolution.

Patrick Cohendet is Full Professor at HEC Montréal in the International Business Department. He is co-director of the research group Mosaic at HEC Montréal on the management of innovation and creativity, and co-editor of the academic journal International Management. He studies the economics of innovation and knowledge, as well as creativity and knowledge management.

Leonhard Dobusch is Professor for Organization Studies at the University of Innsbruck and Academic Director of the Vienna-based Momentum Institute. He holds degrees in business and law, and his research focuses on organizational openness and regulation via standardization, particularly in the area of intellectual property.

Simone Ferriani is Full Professor of Management at the University of Bologna (Italy) and Honorary Professor at City, University of London’s Cass Business School. He is also a lifetime member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge University. Recent publications have focused on the emergence and evaluation of novelty, social network determinants of individual creativity and technology-based entrepreneurship.

Giovanni Formilan is Lecturer in Global Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh Business School. His research focuses on creativity and innovation dynamics, with particular attention to the processes of development, classification, and reception of creative identities and qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches for longitudinal data analysis.

Raimund Hasse, is Professor for Sociology: Organization and Knowledge at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. His research interests are related to organization research, institutional theory and economic sociology.

Michael Hartmann is Professor of Industrial Marketing and Sales at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany. His research focuses on feedback and critique in organizations, as well as practices in the context of personal selling processes.

Konstantin Hondros is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He studies the creative economy, copyright and similarities between cultural artefacts. Besides, he is interested in digital platforms, their organization and influence on creativity, particularly in relation to intellectual property regulation.

Oliver Ibert is Director of the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS), Erkner and Professor of Socio-Spatial Transformation at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany. His research focuses on practices of innovation and creativity in economic and administrative fields, knowledge development, and dealing with crisis.

Gregory Jackson is Professor of Management of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research examines corporate governance and corporate social responsibility in diverse organizational and institutional contexts.

Candace Jones is the Chair of Global Creative Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh Business School. She has published on architecture, cities, film and music, using the lenses of networks, vocabularies, institutional theory in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Administrative Science Quarterly or Organization Science.

Jochen Koch is Professor of Management and Organization and Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. His research interests include organizational creativity, organizational routines and practices, and the theory of strategic and organizational path dependence.

Alice Lam is Professor of Organisation Studies at the School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway University of London. She has researched the work, careers and identities of creative knowledge workers. Her research has been published in Human Relations, Organisation Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Research Policy.

Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire is Full Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management (France). Her research focuses on gender within creative and innovative processes and gender roles in entrepreneurship. Her work has been published in journals such as International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business or International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Elizabeth Long Lingo, Assistant Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, is an ethnographer of work and organizations who studies how people co-create novel outcomes and systemic change. Her research has appeared in Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Organizations Studies, Harvard Business Review, and Work Employment and Society.

Maxime Mellard is a temporary lecturer at Grenoble IAE (University of Grenoble Alpes, France) where he teaches strategic management, creativity, and innovation management. His main research focuses on organizational creativity and creative industries. He has developed an expertise in the use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) methods in creativity and organization research.

Judith Nyfeler, a postdoc from the Institute of Sociology at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, is interested in organizational and economic sociology, the sociology of fashion, and qualitative research methods. She has published a monograph as well as various articles on the creativity in fashion and technology as a source for creativity.

Amalya L. Oliver is a George S. Wise Chair in Sociology Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her current research is on knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and innovation in the context of ethnicity, peripheral regions and cities. She published in journals such as Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Research Policy.

Guy Parmentier, PhD, is Professor at the University of Grenoble Alpes (France) where he co-leads the ICO team (Innovation and Organizational Complexity) and leads the research project Creative Capacity of Organization at CERAG laboratory. Her research topics focus on the management of creativity and innovation in the creative industries and on the innovation of digital business models.

Sigrid Quack, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She is the Director of the KHK/Centre for Global Cooperation Research and holds the Chair of Comparative Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She is broadly interested in the development of transnational and global institutions, including the realm of intellectual property rights.

Rotem Rittblat is a PhD student of Organizational Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her current research interests include innovation management and implementation processes in organizations, structured methods for teaching creative thinking, and the emergence of new fields of knowledge.

Heather Round is a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests encompass creativity, identity, and leadership, in particular looking at the social processes related to creativity and identity work within the organizational setting. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked on large scale, organizational change projects within public and private corporations.

Elke Schuessler is Full Professor of Business Administration and Head of the Institute of Organization Science at Johannes Kepler University Linz. Her research focuses on social challenges that such as climate change, decent work or digitalization as well as different forms of organizing that drive or hinder creativity, innovation and change.

Stoyan V. Sgourev is a Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School, France. His research interests include innovation and evaluation practices in the creative industries, particularly art, opera and ballet. He has published in journals like the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Organization Science or Social Forces.

Silviya Svejenova is Professor in Leadership and Innovation at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, and co-director of imagine. Research Centre on Creative Industries and Institutions. She conducts research on multimodal and temporal aspects of creativity and innovation.

Tobias Theel received his doctorate degree from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and is now a creative industry consultant at Prognos AG and a researcher at the Federal Government’s Centre of Excellence for the Cultural and Creative Industries in Germany. His doctoral research focused on creativity management in the music industry.

Lukas Vogelgsang is a Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) and at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany. His research topics comprise coordination and governance of organizational creativity, pharmaceutical innovation processes, and management of paradoxes and dualities during creative collaboration.

Matthias Wenzel is Professor of Organization Studies at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. His research focuses on the processes and practices through which the interplay between strategy and organization is produced and recreated.

Katharina Zangerle is a Postdoctoral researcher for Organization at the University of Innsbruck. She studies organizations, currently focusing on spatial, temporal, emotional, and regulatory aspects of creativity and innovation.

Foreword: Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Research in the Sociology of Organizations (RSO) publishes cutting edge empirical research and theoretical papers that seek to enhance our understanding of organizations and organizing as pervasive and fundamental aspects of society and economy. We seek provocative papers that push the frontiers of current conversations, that help to revive old ones, or that incubate and develop new perspectives. Given its successes in this regard, RSO has become an impactful and indispensable fount of knowledge for scholars interested in organizational phenomena and theories. RSO is indexed and ranks highly in Scopus/SCImago as well as in the Academic Journal Guide published by the Chartered Association of Business schools.

As one of the most vibrant areas in the social sciences, the sociology of organizations engages a plurality of empirical and theoretical approaches to enhance our understanding of the varied imperatives and challenges that these organizations and their organizers face. Of course, there is a diversity of formal and informal organizations – from for-profit entities to non-profits, state and public agencies, social enterprises, communal forms of organizing, non-governmental associations, trade associations, publicly traded, family owned and managed, private firms – the list goes on! Organizations, moreover, can vary dramatically in size from small entrepreneurial ventures to large multi-national conglomerates to international governing bodies such as the United Nations.

Empirical topics addressed by Research in the Sociology of Organizations include: the formation, survival, and growth or organizations; collaboration and competition between organizations; the accumulation and management of resources and legitimacy; and how organizations or organizing efforts cope with a multitude of internal and external challenges and pressures. Particular interest is growing in the complexities of contemporary organizations as they cope with changing social expectations and as they seek to address societal problems related to corporate social responsibility, inequality, corruption and wrongdoing, and the challenge of new technologies. As a result, levels of analysis reach from the individual, to the organization, industry, community and field, and even the nation-state or world society. Much research is multi-level and embraces both qualitative and quantitative forms of data.

Diverse theory is employed or constructed to enhance our understanding of these topics. While anchored in the discipline of sociology and the field of management, Research in the Sociology of Organizations also welcomes theoretical engagement that draws on other disciplinary conversations – such as those in political science or economics, as well as work from diverse philosophical traditions. RSO scholarship has helped push forward a plethora theoretical conversations on institutions and institutional change, networks, practice, culture, power, inequality, social movements, categories, routines, organization design and change, configurational dynamics and many other topics.

Each volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations tends to be thematically focused on a particular empirical phenomenon (e.g., creative industries, multinational corporations, entrepreneurship) or theoretical conversation (e.g., institutional logics, actors and agency, microfoundations). The series publishes papers by junior as well as leading international scholars, and embraces diversity on all dimensions. If you are scholar interested in organizations or organizing, I hope you find Research in the Sociology of Organizations to be an invaluable resource as you develop your work.

Professor Michael Lounsbury

Series Editor, Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

University of Alberta

Acknowledgments

We thank the German Research Foundation (DFG) for providing funding for this research, including for the organization of the international conference “Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey” held at Freie Universität Berlin in July 2019 where a number of papers in this volume were presented. Other papers were presented at Subtheme “Shedding Light on the Dark Sides of Creativity and Innovation” of the 35th EGOS Colloquium in Edinburgh co-organized by Birke Otto, Oliver Ibert, and Elke Schuessler. We are grateful to Joerg Sydow for comments on earlier drafts and for heading the DFG Research Unit “Organized Creativity,” which provided a fruitful environment for this volume to develop. Silviya Svejenova gratefully acknowledges funding from the Velux Foundation (Velux Project #00021807 “The Temporality of Innovation”) for her work on this volume and introduction. Thanks also go to René Haas for help with formatting and administration, and to all the reviewers for their generous and constructive comments.