Creativity and Innovation
Description
Starting in 2016, I undertook several new projects on creativity and innovation. The first, a revision of my 1988 componential theory of creativity and innovation, was coauthored with Michael Pratt (Boston College) and published in Research in Organizational Behavior (online, 2016; print, 2017). The second, a brief reflection on three forms of creativity evident in everyday life, appeared in 2017 in the Journal of Creative Behavior. The third, a novel theory of how two creative processes can appear under different sets of conditions, coauthored with former HBS doctoral student Johnathan Cromwell (currently on the faculty of the University of San Francisco), was published in 2018 as a chapter in Individual Creativity in the Workplace. The fourth, an essay on the importance of intrinsic motivation and the social environment for creativity, appeared in 2018 as a chapter in The Nature of Human Creativity. The fifth, an essay on the significance of the classic Graham Wallas book (1926) The Art of Thought for contemporary theory and research on the creative process, was published in a 2019 edited book on contributions of the pre-1950 creativity literature (The Creativity Reader). The sixth, on the applicability of my research to real-world problems, appeared in Perspectives on Psychological Science (2019). The seventh, on creativity and artificial intelligence, was published in 2020 in Academy of Management Discoveries.