Organizational aesthetics comprises a way of understanding organizational life based on
immediate sensory reactions (ie, sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch) to the material …

New ideas are central to a wide array of organizational phenomena and research that
involve creativity and innovation. Yet, there is little consensus on what the concept of 'ideas' …

Creativity has long been defined in terms of novelty and usefulness. Surprisingly, however,
there is relatively little agreement about the precise meaning of either dimension, the …

Creative industries are among the fastest-growing and most important sectors of European
and North American economies. Their growth depends on continuous innovation, which is …

Drawing on contemporary debates and responding to an analytic lacuna in organization and
management studies and calls from organizational practice, Phenomenology of the …

In this paper we examine the role of different material artefacts in the exploration of novel
strategic topics. We conceptualize strategic topics as epistemic objects that become …

How is organizing accomplished in contexts that require coordination to be balanced with
creative freedom? The paper addresses this question by building on literature that highlights …

In an increasingly networked world, contracts are the glue of business. Contracts are not
only legal safeguarding instruments to limit parties' opportunism, as argued by transaction …

Although the arts of incense and perfume making are among the oldest of human cultural
practices, it is only in the last two decades that the use of odors in the creation of art has …

The current paper examines analogical processes as drivers of innovation in the creative
industries. Based on a longitudinal case study of a signature perfume label, we argue that …