Creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship across cultures : theory and practices
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Creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship across cultures : theory and practices
(Innovation, technology, and knowledge management)
Springer, c2016
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The aim of this volume is to further develop the relationship between culture and manifold phenomena of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in order to promote further and better understanding how, why, and when these phenomena are manifested themselves across different cultures.
Currently, cross-cultural research is one of the most dynamically and rapidly growing areas. At the same time, creativity, inventiveness, innovation, and entrepreneurship are championed in the literature as the critical element that is vital not just for companies, but also for the development of societies. A sizable body of research demonstrates that cultural differences may foster or inhibit creative, inventive, innovative and entrepreneurial activities; and each culture has its own strengths and weaknesses in these regards. Better understanding of cultural diversity in these phenomena can help to build on strengths and overcome weaknesses.
Cross-cultural studies in this field represent a comparatively new class of interdisciplinary research. This is a field where cultural, sociological, psychological, historical, economic, management, technology and business studies closely intersect. In this book, a global team of researchers representing Europe, Asia, and the Americas review, analyze, structure, systematize and discuss various concepts, assumptions, speculations, theories, and empirical research which focus on the effect of national cultures on creativity, invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. They argue that national culture is not only an extremely important determinant of innovation and business development, but also demonstrate that some aspects relating to these phenomena may be universal among all cultures, thereby identifying those factors that may easily be transferred across cultures from those that are unique to their specific context.
Table of Contents
Preface.- Ch 1 Culture as a Driving Force of Individual and Organizational Behavior.- Ch 2 Creativity and Culture.- Ch 3 Wandering the World in Search of Creativity.- Ch 4 The Geography of the Creative Mind.- Ch 5 Group Creativity and Individual Creativity.- Ch 6 A Review on an Ancient Cultural Convergence.- Ch 7 A Relationship between Creativity, Management Styles, Culture and Language.- Ch 8 Cross-Cultural Challenges for Innovation Management.- Ch 9 Cultural Influences on Innovation and Competitiveness.- Ch 10 Innovating Cultural Synergy in French-Russian Collaboration.- Ch 11 A Cultural Context, Curiosity, and Creativity of Innovators.- Ch 12 Cultural Underpinnings in Entrepreneurship.- Afterword.
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