Creativity and Innovation: A Complex Adaptive Systems Theory
dc.contributor.advisor | Blatherwick, Mary | |
dc.contributor.author | Lambert, Philip A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-05T17:46:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-07-05T17:46:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | Creativity and innovation research has been hampered by the lack of an overarching, internally consistent theoretical framework. This dissertation developed the initial parts of a comprehensive complexity theory of creativity. This is an articles-based dissertation, consisting of three articles that make individual contributions to an overall complexity theory of creativity. Each article established a potential link between creativity and one characteristic of complex adaptive systems. One argued for the equivalency of creativity and emergence, a primary characteristic of complex adaptive systems, while another showed how the paradoxes identified through decades of creativity research can be explained by another characteristic of complex adaptive systems, the order-chaos dynamic. A third article argued that the small-world networks associated with complex adaptive systems predict that diffusion-of-innovation patterns will be unpredictable, not normally distributed, as has been the dogma of business school texts for decades. A small number of datasets were analyzed, and the results support this prediction. In the concluding chapter, the results of the three articles have been brought together and a complex adaptive systems model developed. The model incorporates creativity as a central feature and includes continuous evolution and a feedback loop that yields increasing complexity. Together, these three articles represent a strong case for recognizing creativity as a characteristic of complex adaptive systems and for continued efforts along this line of research. | |
dc.description.copyright | ©Philip A. Lambert, 2019 | |
dc.format.extent | xii, 352 | |
dc.format.medium | electronic | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/37253 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of New Brunswick | |
dc.rights | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 | |
dc.subject.discipline | Philosophy | |
dc.title | Creativity and Innovation: A Complex Adaptive Systems Theory | |
dc.type | doctoral thesis | |
oaire.license.condition | other | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy | |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of New Brunswick | |
thesis.degree.level | doctorate | |
thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. |
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