Organization Learning and Search Track: Innovating Under Constraints Within and Beyond Organizational Boundaries

Abstract

This symposium offers insights on the role of constraints in creativity and innovation processes within and beyond organizational boundaries. The presenters will share theoretical and empirical investigations of how constraints, such as time pressure, access to resources, and societal challenges affect and shape innovation processes. The research presented in this symposium will involve data collected from various research contexts, such as open innovation to solve societal problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and to develop medical devices to address the ventilator shortage problem around the world, teams competing in an internal innovation competition, creative teams working in the Hollywood animation industry, and creating a new culinary paradigm in fine-dining. Collectively Tackling Societal Challenges: Transcending Boundaries through Open Social Innovation Presenter: Johanna Mair; Hertie School of Governance Presenter: Thomas Karl Gegenhuber; Johannes Kepler U. Linz Presenter: Laura Thäter; Hertie School of Governance Presenter: Rene Lührsen; Hertie School of Governance Breathing Fresh Air into a Broken System: Accelerating the Innovation Process for Ventilators Presenter: Hila Lifshitz-Assaf; New York U. Presenter: Steven Randazzo; - Presenter: Olivia Jung; Emory U. A Problem Half-Solved is a Problem Well-Stated: Team Problem Discovery & Innovation Project Success Presenter: Johnathan Cromwell; U. of San Francisco Presenter: Jean-François Harvey; HEC Montreal Creative Starvation: How Resource Endowments Shape the Financial Resources-Creativity Relationship Presenter: Pier Vittorio Mannucci; Bocconi U. Pressure cooker: The role of constraints in the creation of molecular cuisine breakthroughs Presenter: Ivanka Visnjic; ESADE Business School Presenter: Sebastian Raisch; GSEM - U. of Geneva Presenter: Marcel Planellas; ESADE