Strategic change in organizations prompts pervasive ambiguity. As change initiatives
cascade down the hierarchy, they can be met with habitual, inertial responses that ultimately …

Innovation teams must navigate inherent tensions between different learning activities to
produce high levels of performance. Yet, we know little about how teams combine these …

The COVID-19 pandemic is a ''wicked problem''that is characterized by multiple competing
problems that seem to conflict with each other, 1 such as protecting lives versus preserving …

An innovating organization faces the challenge of how to prioritize distinct goals of novelty
and value, both of which underlie innovation. Popular practitioner frameworks like Agile …

Research suggests that extreme levels of constraint can push people to use different types
of creative problem solving, but this conflicts with recent theory arguing that individuals are …

Exaptation refers to the emergence of novel functionalities in existing products. Exaptations
frequently arise in the context of users who creatively modify (or hack) existing products to …

Intrinsic motivation is widely considered essential to creativity because it facilitates more
divergent thinking during problem solving. However, we argue that intrinsic motivation has …

Supervisors may experience time differently from their subordinates, and little is known
about the interplay between the time pressures experienced by supervisors and their teams …

In this chapter, we reviewed the theoretical and empirical literature on creative problem-
solving in teams. Specifically, three core cognitive processes have been examined:(1) …

How can organizations support the creativity of their members? Many managers think that
tools like rewards and deadlines consistently motivate employees to do their best work …