Cross-Cultural Innovation: New Thoughts, Empirical Research, Practical Reports

Published by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2007

Cross-Cultural Innovation

New Thoughts, Empirical Research, Practical Reports

Edited by: Bernd Jöstingmeier and Heinz-Jürgen Boeddrich

https://doi.org/10.1524/9783486843903

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Cross-cultural means not only the differences between ethnic, racial or national groups. It is more. Cross-cultural confrontations arise by the differences of genders, educational levels, differences in thinking of diverse companies` departments (e.g. production versus research & development, marketing versus finance), the mix of musicians or styles of painting. However, there is a lot of danger in cross-cultural collaboration: Diversity means different views, opinions, values and objectives easily generating misunderstandings and quarrels possibly ending up with serious conflicts. The conflicts may trigger new approaches and breakthroughs or lead to a state of frozen relations and stagnation. Sensitivity to the values and views of other cultures, open communication and aware leadership are traits helping to capitalize on cross-cultural influences. In further discussions with our friends of the EACI board we changed our mind for the new conference topic to CROSS-CULTURAL INNOVATION. Cross-cultural Innovations are new and origin problem solutions, which are generated in confronting problems with cross-cultural aspects. In many cases such solutions are breakthroughs and the start of a paradigm shift. Another advantage of such solutions is that they even influence the subconscious of stakeholders’ problems. Only cross-cultural solutions minimize the risk of hidden problems which develop under the surface in merger projects. Especially mergers of big companies are successful if change-managers are able to transfer cross-cultural conflicts in new challenging objectives. Bridging cultural gaps by visionary leadership is the way to bring people together and to create new common innovative enterprises or departments.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
The European Association for Creativity and Innovation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Gesellschaft für Kreativität e. V. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
Greeting Sidney J. Parnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIX
Cross Cultural Creativity and Innovation Jan Buijs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XXIII
New Thoughts, Theories and Models
Ideas in the Workplace - A New Approach to Organise the Fuzzy Front End of the Innovation Process Heinz-Jürgen Boeddrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
How to Stimulate Innovation in a Cluster of Organizations? Gijs van Beeck Calkoen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Beyond Business Planning - The Role of Creativity in Sustainable Entrepreneurial Development Matthias Eickhoff and Christoph Jakob Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Beyond Systematic Innovation - integration of Emergence and Recursion Concepts into TRIZ and Other Tools Darrell Mann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Dialectic Creativity, Based Upon Hegel's Triad of Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis (TAS) Heiner Müller-Merbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
How to Make Creativity to Serve the Objectives of Corporate Strategy Roc Irwin Peng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
A Gender View on Creativity Birgit Preuß-Scheuerle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
The More the Better? Aharon Shapira and Yoni Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Interactions between Product Development and Production I - Clashes in Cross-Cultural Learning Frido E. Smulders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Interactions between Product Development and Production II - Clashes in Cross-Cultural Abstraction Levels Frido Smulders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Creative Complexes: A Theoretical Framework for Collaborative Creativity Stephan Sonnenburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Creative Problem Solving in Software Development - Outsourcing through Internet Zhenlin Xu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Global Strategic Guidelines for Innovation Management Bernd Jöstingmeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Empirical Research
Impacts of Cultural Diversity on New Ventures - Theoretical and Empirical Findings Ricarda Β. Bouncken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
The Contingency and Inevitability of Organizational Innovation — Case Analysis of Ten Innovative Enterprises Jon-Chao Hong and Chan-Li Lin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Climate for Creativity in Polish Companies: Does a New Market Economy Need New Ideas? Edward Nęcka and Joanna Kwasniewska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Turning the Tide: The Quiet Resolve of Private Entrepreneurs in China Virginia Trigo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
A Comparative Research on Creativity Development between Japanese and Chinese Enterprises Fangqi Xu and Susumu Kunifuji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Is the Hydrogen Economy Coming? Bernd Jöstingmeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Practical Reports from Business Experience
About Barriers to Innovation, Learning and Company Culture Hans-Jochen Gscheidmeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Unilever: A Global Approach Mehmood Khan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Vitalizing the Innovation Process within and across Company Boundaries Michael Niklas and Karsten Königstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Six Companies Join Forces - Report on a Group Project „New Products" Götz Schaude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Fast, Innovative Breakthrough Using Cross-Cultural Collaboration Donna Rae Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Organizational Due Diligence (OD2) Monika de Waal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Can You "Drive" Cross-Cultural, Cross-Functional Innovation Workshops Successfully ? Herbert Weinreich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Winning Team Results! - A Team-Based Approach to Project Management in Cross-Cultural Environments Herbert Weinreich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Practical Reports using Methods and Technology
Open Space Technology - It Works! Sabine General and Gudrun Lantelme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
Managerial Strategies of Power Tech Contest Jon-Chao Hong, Yung-Yu Chu, Shu-Feng Hou, Ju-Hsun Hsiao and Yueh-Chih Chiang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
Cross Cultural Implications for Creative Problem Solving Scott G. Isaksen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
Interview on the Global Success of Mind-Mapping Vanda North and Gisela Hagemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
The Dance of the Hero: Transcultural Myths and Creativity Marcel van der Pol Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	473
Cross-Cultural Expert Teams in the Scenario Development Process Martina Schwarz-Geschka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
Practical Reports from Education
Effective Functions of Bilingual Teaching to Promote Creative Thinking Li Jiazeng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
Pedagogy of Subjectivity - Basic Principles and their Practical Usage in Education Beate Marcinkowska and Dorota Nawrat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
R&D Activities in Japanese Companies and Universities Morio Shibayama and Masaharu Yano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
History of the German Association for Creativity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527
Day of Creativity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	537
Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	541
Editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	549
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	556

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Language: English
Publisher: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag
Edition: 2nd edition
Audience: Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Praktiker gleichermaßen.
Pages
- Front matter: 24
- Main content: 555
Keywords: Innovationsmanagement; Management; Kreativität; Open Space; EACI

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Published: June 2, 2014
ISBN: 9783486843903

Hardcover

Published: April 2, 2007
ISBN: 9783486583212