@techreport{Deckert2015, author = {Deckert, Carsten}, title = {Tensions in Creativity - Using the Value Square to Model Individual Creativity}, series = {CBD Working Paper Series}, volume = {2}, journal = {CBD Working Paper Series}, publisher = {Cologne Business School}, address = {K{\"o}ln}, organization = {Cologne Business School}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-18209}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The definition of individual creativity is based on a tension between novelty on the one side and usefulness respectively appropriateness on the other side. The paper explores how this tension pervades the stage and componential theories of creativity. To achieve this, the so called value square ("Wertequadrat") developed by Helwig (1967) and Schulz von Thun (1998)is used which balances a value with its countervalue to analyze creativity. The author identifies tensions of action and inaction, expertise and mindfulness, precision and ambiguity as well as immersion and detachment permeating the creative process and the components of creativity. As a conclusion a morphological box for creativity is presented which allows one to show which combination of characteristics of the tensions support different stages of creativity. Furthermore implications for development and time management are discussed.}, language = {en} } @article{DeckertScherer2017, author = {Deckert, Carsten and Scherer, Anke}, title = {The Dao of Innovation: What European Innovators Can Learn from Philosophical Daoism}, series = {Kindai Management Review}, volume = {5}, journal = {Kindai Management Review}, number = {4}, pages = {105 -- 118}, year = {2017}, abstract = {A central question for managers in charge of innovation is to what extent creativity and inno-vation can be controlled and supervised, or whether they just have to be set free and allowed to take shape. In assessing this dilemma the authors conclude that there is a contradiction of action versus inaction on the personal level as well as a contradiction of control versus loss of control on the organizational level. What European innovators can learn from philosophical Daoism is an attitude that allows a process to just develop "naturally" and refrains from prem-ature interference with the intention to permanently be in control. In business structures that judge everything according to its usefulness, i.e. profitability for the company, a look at the laid-back attitude of Daoism where usefulness and uselessness are relative qualities might relief the pressure on people to perform in a premeditated way. Innovation can be supported, but creativity cannot be forced. It can only be allowed to happen when control, interference, and action are balanced out with non-interference, and go-with-the-flow. This attitude in not an excuse for stressed-out managers to neglect their duty, but a time honoured worldview of one of the oldest civilizations in the world that can give them the sovereignty to "get out of the way" and let innovation happen.}, language = {en} } @techreport{Deckert2016, author = {Deckert, Carsten}, title = {Tensions in Creative Products - Using the Value Square to Model Functional Creativity}, series = {CBS Working Paper Series}, volume = {4}, journal = {CBS Working Paper Series}, publisher = {Cologne Business School}, address = {K{\"o}ln}, organization = {Cologne Business School}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-18078}, year = {2016}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{Deckert2016, author = {Deckert, Carsten}, title = {Tensions in Corporate Creativity}, series = {Book of Papers}, booktitle = {Book of Papers}, organization = {M-Sphere - Association for Promotion of Multidisciplinarity in Science and Business}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-18065}, pages = {79 -- 86}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The standard definition of creativity is based on a tension between originality and effectiveness. Borrowing from the wave-particle duality in physics one could say that there is an originality-effectiveness duality at work for creativity. The paper explores how this tension pervades Amabile's (1997) componential theory of organizational creativity with the components organizational motivation, management practices (including work assignment and work control) and resources. As a method the so called value square (" Wertequadrat ") developed by Helwig (1967) and Schulz von Thun (1998) is used which balances a value with its countervalue. The author identifies a tension of corporate tradition and corporate change for organizational motivation, a tension of skills and challenges for work assignment, a tension of management by control and management by loss of control for work control as well as a tension of organizational efficiency and organizational slack for resources. Additionally different implications of these tensions for the resistance of a company to creativity, for an organizational climate conducive to creativity as well as for resource allocation in creative endeavours are discussed.}, language = {en} } @article{Deckert2016, author = {Deckert, Carsten}, title = {On the Originality-Effectiveness Duality of Creativity: Tensions Concerning the Components of Creativity}, series = {Business Creativity and the Creative Economy}, volume = {2}, journal = {Business Creativity and the Creative Economy}, number = {1}, doi = {10.18536/bcce.2016.10.2.1.07}, pages = {70 -- 82}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The standard definition of individual creativity is based on a tension between originality on the one side and effectiveness (usefulness and appropriateness) on the other side. In this article this tension is called the originality-effectiveness duality of creativity. The article explores how this duality pervades the componential theories of creativity. To analyze the components of creativity with regard to their tensions, the so called value square ("Wertequadrat") developed by Helwig (1967) and Schulz von Thun (1998) is used. The value square explains each component as a dynamic equilibrium and shows how a positive value is balanced with its positive countervalue. Tensions of mindfulness, precision and ambiguity, as well as immersion and detachment are identified permeating the components of creativity. This article explores the implications these tensions have for creativity research and for businesses in a creative economy.}, language = {en} } @article{Deckert2016, author = {Deckert, Carsten}, title = {Ecological sustainability of material resources - Why material efficiency just isn't enough}, series = {uwf UmweltWirtschaftsForum}, volume = {24}, journal = {uwf UmweltWirtschaftsForum}, number = {4}, publisher = {Springer}, doi = {10.1007/s00550-016-0419-2}, pages = {325 -- 335}, year = {2016}, language = {en} }