Cross-Cultural Innovation : : New Thoughts, Empirical Research, Practical Reports / / ed. by Bernd Jöstingmeier, Heinz-Jürgen Boeddrich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Business and Economics 2000-2014 (EN)
• MitwirkendeR: Boeddrich, Heinz-Jürgen,; Bouncken, Ricarda Β.,; Buijs, Jan,; Calkoen, Gijs van Beeck,; Chiang, Yueh-Chih,; Chu, Yung-Yu,; Eickhoff, Matthias,; General, Sabine,; Gscheidmeyer, Hans-Jochen,; Hagemann, Gisela,; Hong, Jon-Chao,; Hou, Shu-Feng,; Hsiao, Ju-Hsun,; Isaksen, Scott G.,; Jakob, Christoph,; Jiazeng, Li,; Jöstingmeier, Bernd,; Khan, Mehmood,; Kunifuji, Susumu,; Kwasniewska, Joanna,; Königstein, Karsten,; Lantelme, Gudrun,; Lin, Chan-Li,; Mann, Darrell,; Marcinkowska, Beate,; Müller-Merbach, Heiner,; Nawrat, Dorota,; Niklas, Michael,; North, Vanda,; Nęcka, Edward,; Parnes, Sidney J.,; Peng, Roc Irwin,; Pol, Marcel van der,; Preuß-Scheuerle, Birgit,; Schaude, Götz,; Schwarz-Geschka, Martina,; Shapira, Aharon,; Shibayama, Morio,; Smith, Donna Rae,; Smulders, Frido E.,; Smulders, Frido,; Sonnenburg, Stephan,; Stern, Yoni,; Trigo, Virginia,; Waal, Monika de,; Weinreich, Herbert,; Xu, Fangqi,; Xu, Zhenlin,; Yano, Masaharu,
• HerausgeberIn: Boeddrich, Heinz-Jürgen,; Jöstingmeier, Bernd,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, , [2014]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (555 p.)

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.

Unter dem Thema "Cross-Cultural Innovation" haben Wissenschaftler, Berater und Führungskräfte aus 20 Nationen ihre Erfahrungen, Forschungsergebnisse, Ideen und Visionen über die befruchtende Wirkung interkultureller Unterschiede auf Innovationen ausgetauscht und diskutiert. Das vorliegende Buch ist eine repräsentative Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse des Treffens der weltweit führenden Experten für Kreativität und Innovation, das Anfang September 2003 zum zweiten Mal in Deutschland stattfand. In den Kategorien Neue Gedanken, Theorien und Modelle; Empirische Untersuchungen; Praktische Erfahrungsberichte aus der Geschäftswelt; Praktische Erfahrungsberichte über die Anwendung von Methoden und Techniken; Praktische Erfahrungsberichte aus der Bildung wird dargestellt, wie das Aufeinandertreffen unterschiedlicher Kulturen positive Impulse für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft bewirkt. Darüber hinaus spiegeln die 36 Artikel der international renommierten Autoren die neuesten praktischen und theoretischen Erkenntnisse über Kreativität und Innovation weltweit wieder. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Praktiker gleichermaßen.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- The European Association for Creativity and Innovation -- Gesellschaft für Kreativität e. V. -- Preface -- Greeting -- Cross Cultural Creativity and Innovation -- New Thoughts, Theories and Models -- Ideas in the Workplace - A New Approach to Organise the Fuzzy Front End of the Innovation Process -- How to Stimulate Innovation in a Cluster of Organizations? -- Beyond Business Planning - The Role of Creativity in Sustainable Entrepreneurial Development -- Beyond Systematic Innovation - integration of Emergence and Recursion Concepts into TRIZ and Other Tools -- Dialectic Creativity, Based Upon Hegel's Triad of Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis (TAS) -- How to Make Creativity to Serve the Objectives of Corporate Strategy -- A Gender View on Creativity -- The More the Better? -- Interactions between Product Development and Production I - Clashes in Cross-Cultural Learning -- Interactions between Product Development and Production II - Clashes in Cross-Cultural Abstraction Levels -- Creative Complexes: A Theoretical Framework for Collaborative Creativity -- Creative Problem Solving in Software Development - Outsourcing through Internet -- Global Strategic Guidelines for Innovation Management -- Empirical Research -- Impacts of Cultural Diversity on New Ventures - Theoretical and Empirical Findings -- The Contingency and Inevitability of Organizational Innovation — Case Analysis of Ten Innovative Enterprises -- Climate for Creativity in Polish Companies: Does a New Market Economy Need New Ideas? -- Turning the Tide: The Quiet Resolve of Private Entrepreneurs in China -- A Comparative Research on Creativity Development between Japanese and Chinese Enterprises -- Is the Hydrogen Economy Coming? -- Practical Reports from Business Experience -- About Barriers to Innovation, Learning and Company Culture -- Unilever: A Global Approach -- Vitalizing the Innovation Process within and across Company Boundaries -- Six Companies Join Forces - Report on a Group Project „New Products" -- Fast, Innovative Breakthrough Using Cross-Cultural Collaboration -- Organizational Due Diligence (OD2) -- Can You "Drive" Cross-Cultural, Cross-Functional Innovation Workshops Successfully ? -- Winning Team Results! - A Team-Based Approach to Project Management in Cross-Cultural Environments -- Practical Reports using Methods and Technology -- Open Space Technology - It Works! -- Managerial Strategies of Power Tech Contest -- Cross Cultural Implications for Creative Problem Solving -- Interview on the Global Success of Mind-Mapping -- The Dance of the Hero: Transcultural Myths and Creativity -- Cross-Cultural Expert Teams in the Scenario Development Process -- Practical Reports from Education -- Effective Functions of Bilingual Teaching to Promote Creative Thinking -- Pedagogy of Subjectivity - Basic Principles and their Practical Usage in Education -- R&D Activities in Japanese Companies and Universities -- History of the German Association for Creativity -- Day of Creativity -- Authors -- Editors -- Backmatter