Idea Work: Lessons of the Extraordinary in Everyday Creativity - Softcover

Arne Carlsen; Stewart Clegg; Reidar Gjersvik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8202403375 ISBN 13: 9788202403379

Publisher: Cappelen Damm Akademisk (N), 2012

Synopsis

What does it take to find oil in an area where many have tried, but failed? What does it take to design buildings that become prize-winning cultural landmarks? And what can the best architects, oil explorers, business lawyers, journalists, and business developers within banking and trading analysis have in common? Idea Work can provide the answers. This book builds on a four-year research project and describes what extraordinary idea work looks like in practice. The authors take you behind the scenes of six industry leading companies and show how surprisingly similarly they work when they are working creatively to develop and realize new ideas. The book gives us, for example, a glimpse of how Snøhetta designed the Opera in Oslo and the 9/11 memorial in New York, and how explorers at Statoil discovered the most oil of all oil companies in the world in 2011. Narratives are presented on how prepping, sketches, pin-ups, drama, wonder, and punk are important aspects of the extraordinary. Examples are supported by theory, placing this book at the forefront of international research. Idea Work will appeal to practitioners, students and researchers. It recounts engaging stories from actual production processes and combines new theoretical perspectives with practical advice. It will be of interest to anyone working with development processes and projects that depend on new ideas. From a professional standpoint, this book is an uncommon contribution to describing and understanding creativity as collective and grounded in everyday activity.

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About the Author

Arne Carlsen is an Associate Professor at BI Norwegian School of Business, Department for Leadership and Organizational Behaviour. He has broad experience from action research projects in more than 50 organizations and was the leader of the Idea Work-project. Carlsen s research deals with issues of individual and collective growth in organizations. He has published in journals, handbooks and books about knowledge management, professional service work, identity construction, organizational becoming, hope, and positive organizational change. Stewart Clegg is a Research Professor and Director of the Centre for Management and Organisation Studies Research at the University of Technology, Sydney, and Visiting Professor at Universidade Nova, Lisbon, as well as at Copenhagen Business School and EM-Lyon. A prolific contributor to leading academic journals in social science, management and organization theory, he has won a number of awards for his research work, including the George R. Terry Award of the Academy of Management for outstanding contributions to management knowledge for his role in editing the Handbook of Organization Studies. Reidar Gjersvik carries out action research on knowledge, change, learning and idea work in organizations. He holds a PhD in Organization Development and IT from the Department of Organization and Work Life Science at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Gjersvik has been a Research Director at SINTEF s Department Kunne and a Knowledge Manager in Advokatfirmaet Thommessen. Reidar is now Department Director for KulturLab at Arts Council Norway.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cappelen Damm Akademisk (N)
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8202403375
• ISBN 13: 9788202403379
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208