Open AccessR. Keith Sawyer
Author(s) -
An Interview by Mark Laver
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
critical studies in improvisation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1712-0624
DOI - 10.21083/csieci.v9i1.2743
Subject(s) - creativity , genius , conversation , corporation , chapel , skepticism , management , sociology , diversity (politics) , art history , psychology , epistemology , art , philosophy , political science , law , social psychology , anthropology , economics , communication
This interview with Dr. Keith Sawyer, the Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, explores the possibilities for creativity and diversity in the corporate workplace. Such collaborative innovation debunks the traditional structure of the corporation. Interviewer Dr. Mark Laver guides the conversation through the hurdles that pose an obstruction to this optimistic outlook. Drs. Sawyer and Laver work through issues such as the skeptical observation that corporations may capitalize upon creativity to reify their self-serving structures and the phallogocentric conception of genius that creativity entails.