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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS
HICSS-52 Call for papers for the minitrack on:
"CREATIVITY: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE MINITRACK"
Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)
Maui - January 8-11, 2019
Innovation is a critical force in organizational performance and
survival. Changes in technology, globalization, and increased
competition have all created an environment in which creativity
and innovation are needed in order to cope with situational and
economic pressures and frequent changes. Designers and
Developers of organizational systems must therefore innovate
almost continuously to keep the organization aligned with such
changes. Creativity is a critical pre-condition for innovation.
Generating novel and creative ideas are the key to innovation
and growth in every organization today. Providing employees,
customers and partners with tools to think creatively has been
proven to increase innovation in organizations. Research shows
that organizations which have established skill-bases and tools
for creativity outperform the competition in terms of revenue,
rolling out new products, innovation and growth. Though
organizations deploy groups for most creative processes, there
has been little research in the area of group creativity. Most
creative research is focused on individual factors affecting
creativity. Many challenges that arise from pursuing creativity
in teams remain unexplored.
This minitrack provides one of the key international platforms
on which the following topics can be discussed (related topics
not listed are especially welcome):
- Methods & techniques to improve
creativity in teams and crowds
- Open Innovation, idea competitions,
co-creation, and creativity through social media
- Design and evaluation of platforms,
systems, and technologies for enhancing creativity
- Challenges and opportunities for
creativity in teams, crowds, and organizations
- Theoretical foundations for creativity at
individual, group, crowd, and organizational levels
- Practical approaches to foster creativity
at individual, group, crowd, and organizational levels
- The creation and implementation of
innovations in teams, crowds, and organizations
- Factors affecting creativity in
individuals, teams, crowds, and organizations
- Multi-level issues of creativity in teams,
crowds, and organizations
- Multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches
to creativity
- Creative collaboration between business
partners and customers (e.g. open innovation and co-creation
of products and services)
- Managing creative projects
We welcome papers that contain original ideas on how to improve
creativity and innovation through all phases of problem-solving,
i.e., understanding a problem, devising potential solutions,
evaluating alternatives, making choices, making plans, taking
action, and after-action review. We seek papers that suggest
methodical, technical, theoretical, or practical improvements
for realizing creative ideas in the workforce as innovations,
for an organization cannot benefit from its creativity until its
ideas are implemented.
This minitrack is open to both qualitative and quantitative
research, to research from a positivist, interpretivist, or
critical perspective, to studies from the lab, from the field,
design-oriented or developmental in nature.
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Triparna
de Vreede (Primary Contact)
University of South Florida
tdevreede@usf.edu
Gert-Jan
de Vreede
University of South Florida
gdevreede@usf.edu
Isabella
Seeber
University of Innsbruck, Austria
isabella.seeber@uibk.ac.at
Submit an electronic copy of the full paper, 10 pages including
title page, abstract, references and diagrams using the review
system available at the HICSS site (
http://hicss.hawaii.edu/),
make sure that the authors? names and affiliation information has
been removed to ensure an anonymous review.
TIMELINE:
June 15: Full papers uploaded to the minitrack through the
submission system at
http://hicss.hawaii.edu.
August 15: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors.
September 15: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, uploaded;
author(s) must register by this time.
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Isabella SEEBER
Assistant
Professor