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Creativity in Communication: A Theoretical Framework for Collaborative Product Creation
Author(s) -
Sonnenburg Stephan
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
creativity and innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1467-8691
pISSN - 0963-1690
DOI - 10.1111/j.0963-1690.2004.00314.x
Subject(s) - creativity , relevance (law) , context (archaeology) , product (mathematics) , creativity technique , phenomenon , style (visual arts) , knowledge management , new product development , relation (database) , computer science , epistemology , sociology , psychology , social psychology , marketing , business , political science , mathematics , paleontology , philosophy , history , geometry , archaeology , database , law , biology
Most creative acts occur in a collaborative context. Recent research contributions see the relevance of collaborative creativity but they lack a theoretical basis. What exactly is understood by collaborative creativity and above all, how it is examined, appears not to be the focus of well‐founded analyses. The key objective of this paper is to present a new model characterizing collaborative product creation. This model describes theoretical essence needed for any creative collaboration. As a result, the phenomenon of communication is crystallized as the driving force for collaborative creativity. The article is divided into three sections. First, the paper focuses on creative collaboration in previous creativity research. It is shown that a different understanding of collaborative creativity exists. Second, four dimensions of the new model are presented: type of communication, course of performance, working style and the relation between the nature of problems and the implication of solutions. Lastly, the relevance of the observations for future research and creativity management is discussed briefly.