OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Creativity and Innovation Management is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Why so serious? The effects of humour on creativity and innovation	52
When products speak differently: Designing new languages for established products	49
Does corporate social responsibility increase innovation? Evidence from France	44
AI‐Augmented Approaches to Creative Problem‐Solving: A Metacognitive Perspective	41
Innovation for Sufficiency: How Businesses Support a Disruptive Consumption Strategy	39
Evaluating Creative Output With Generative Artificial Intelligence: Comparing GPT Models and Human Experts in Idea Evaluation	32
Balancing act: Exploring the interplay of production pressure and innovation/flexibility climates on employee well‐being	31
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The Role of Creativity and Innovation Management Research in Times of Changing Security and Defence Realities	26
A configurational approach to capabilities of business model innovation: Insights from a project‐based firm	25
Weaving a New Path: Rethinking Incumbents' Role in Sustainability Transitions Through a Multilevel Perspective	23
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Promoters as social controls to facilitate knowledge sharing, conflict management and innovation project portfolio performance	21
Boosting Design Thinking adoption in organisations through a game‐based toolkit: A gamified approach in building facilitators to overcome Design Thinking adoption barriers	20
Achieving Firm Ambidexterity Through Portfolio Management Meeting Conversations	19
Disentangling the Relationship Between Mindfulness and Creativity: The Role of Conceptual and Experimental Creative Methods	19
Green exploration and exploitation: Capabilities, product advantage, and policy considerations	18
Corporate Venture Clienting: A Governance Perspective Through the Lens of Stewardship Theory	18
Real options or fallen angels: Examining the complexities of learning from terminated projects	17
Exploring the coevolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems and institutional entrepreneurship: The case of sustainable entrepreneurship	17
From Knowledge Management to Data Management in Innovation: Organizing to Leverage Data Through Anomalies	17

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Action Design Research for Actionable Knowledge Production: A Metareflexive Methodology for Digital Transformation and Innovation Studies	16
Fostering knowledge sharing: Design principles for persuasive digital technologies in open innovation projects	15
Forming routines across epistemic communities — A study of interdisciplinary routine creation in breast cancer care	15
Fostering the transition towards circular economy through collaborations: An open innovation perspective in the building industry	14
Bridging the gap: Linking prototyping and technology readiness levels for integrative product development	14
How do inventors overcome the relational inertia after inter‐firm mobility?	14
Perceived knowledge relevance in an R&D alliance: The role of job experience, social network position and motivation	13
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The perceived relevance of design thinking in achieving innovation goals: The individual microfoundations perspective	12
Innovation and creativity in gastronomy beyond Haute Cuisine restaurants: Towards an innovation ecosystem in Gastronomytech in the Basque Country	12
Where business model innovation comes from and where it goes: A bibliometric review	12
A self‐determination approach towards capitalising on autonomy and innovative work behaviour in task performance	12
The Role of Learning Capability in Driving Innovation Performance of Market‐Oriented Enterprises in the Creative Industries	11
Environmental scanning, cross‐functional coordination and the adoption of green strategies: An information processing perspective	11
Disruptions of Food Catering Ecosystems Through Online Food Delivery Platforms—Evidence From Northern Africa	11
Through thick and thin: The moment of meaning as a boundary object	11
All's well that ends well and starts well	11
Creativity in virtual teams: Systematic review, synthesis and research agenda	11
Maneuvering responsive, tactical, and preventive innovation in an innovation ecosystem to address the grand challenge of organized crime	11
Seven years and beyond	11
Championing Better Ideas: Workplace Dignity as an Amplifier of Innovative Work Behaviour	10
Beyond Sufficiency: The Methodological Value of Necessary Condition Analysis for Creativity and Innovation Research	10
Individual Factors and Innovative Work Behaviours: The Influence of Organisational Culture	10
Beyond the AI Hype: How Students' Psychological Distance From AI Affects Their AI‐Powered Learning Experience and Satisfaction	10
The (Re)Design of Ecosystems to Face Grand Challenges—Toward the Management of Creative Evolution	10
Creativity and artificial intelligence: A multilevel perspective	9
Designer's attitude: The forms of designer's interactions with customers in the design‐led innovation process	9
From Green Human Resource Management to Sustainability: Examining Direct and Configurational Mechanisms Through the Componential Theory of Creativity and Psychological Safety	9
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Managers' search practices at the front end of radical manufacturing technology innovations	9
A dynamic view of strategic innovation for sustainability: A longitudinal case study of a luxury fashion engineering company	8
Managerial framing in light of discontinuous change: Revolutionists, evolutionists, and mediators	8
Toward Sustainable Organizations: Routines to Embed Sustainability in Corporate Culture	8
Plagiarism—Not in Creativity and Innovation Management	8
Working in the office or working from home: Where are employees most creative?	8
Entrepreneurial alertness during severe crises: The effect on internal corporate venturing through business model innovation as a strategic response	8
Who captures value from hackathons? Innovation contests with collective intelligence tools bridging creativity and coupled open innovation	8
Advancing Design Science for Multi‐Actor Innovation Processes: Structuring Ecosystem Model Innovation for Transformative Change	8
Uncovering the Paradox of Affordable Innovation: The Divergent Effect of Innovativeness on Managers' Attitudes Toward Affordable Innovation	8
Problem constraints in ideation contests: How different types of constraints matter	8
Algorithms in the Realm of Fuzziness. How Generative Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Front End of Innovation	8
What can economic coordination do for creativity and well‐being?	8
Shall we dance? How systemic intermediaries coordinate interaction within local sustainability initiatives over time	7
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At the Early Stage of the Ideation Process: Measurement, Antecedents and Outcomes of Individual Exploratory Behaviours	7
Design Thinking, Serendipity, and Digital Innovation	7
Business model innovation for reducing uncertainty in sustainability transitions: A case study of the wood construction industry	7
How entrepreneurial practices balance art and business: Insights into creative entrepreneurship in the European film industry	6
Leveraging corporate sustainability through responsible innovation: Capacity building with exploration and exploitation	6

Heedful proactivity: How individual tactical considerations contribute to pre‐screening of innovative ideas in the hierarchy	6
Bridging Innovation Management and Circular Economy: An Empirical Assessment of Green Innovation and Open Innovation	6
Examining the Path From Organizational Agility to Organizational Creativity	6
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Getting Crowdsourcing Right: Aligning Crowdsourcing Goals and Decision‐Making Processes	5
Entrepreneurial networks, effectuation and business model innovation of startups: The moderating role of environmental dynamism	5
Design thinking impact on value creation and value capture on innovation projects	5
Standardised Innovation Management Systems: Modelling the Antecedents of Certification and Maintenance Benefits	5
Visual Artist, Craftsperson, Entrepreneur or … All in One? Identity Struggles and Juggles in Creative Crafts	5
‘Good Enough’: The Use of Satisficing in the Design of Disruptive Innovation in Emerging Economies	5
The implementation of bottom‐up innovation in a formalized context: A resource‐mobilization perspective	5
Technology‐Aided Customer Experience Innovation: Implementation Modes in Retail	5
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The Innovation Power of Living Labs to Enable Sustainability Transitions: Challenges and Opportunities of On‐Campus Initiatives	5
Modelling Hierarchical Configurations in Innovation Research With Two‐Step QCA: Methodological Recommendations and an Application to Workarounds	5
Reviewing excellence	5
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The power of a pledge: Exploring the relationship between sense of calling and innovative work behaviour in healthcare	4
Solvers' participation in crowdsourcing initiatives for social innovation: Exploring interactions among motivational forces	4
Do cultural and creative entrepreneurs make affectively driven decisions? Not when they evaluate their opportunities	4
Entrepreneurship as design: A design process for the emergence and development of entrepreneurial opportunities	4
Connecting the unconnected: Analogies and the development of insight in the absorptive capacity process	4
Creativity, innovation and digits	4
Integration of open innovation, circularity and sustainability: A systematic mapping of connections, analysis of indicators and future prospects	4
A moderated mediation model linking entrepreneurial leadership to green innovation: An upper echelons theory perspective	4
Boosting the Circular Transition in Manufacturing Firms: The Interplay Between Absorptive Capacity and Dynamic Capabilities	4
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A predictive structural model of new ways of working on innovative work behaviour: Higher education perspective in the Gulf Cooperation Council	4
Organizing employee‐driven innovation (EDI) through game‐based formats: Understanding participation	4
Value Co‐Creation and Value Capture in Digital Innovation Ecosystems: A Multiple Case Study in the Agrifood Sector	3
From ideas to innovations: The role of individuals in idea implementation	3
Institutional Antecedents of Creativity and Product Innovation in the Digital Cultural Industries	3
Certification, Maintenance and Decertification of Standardised Innovation Management Systems: Motivations, Barriers and Benefits	3
Investigating the Influence of Network Ties on Frugal Innovation Through Resource Bricolage: Insights From a Resource‐Constrained Environment	3
Shades of green deception—An empirical examination into the consequences of greenwashing of innovations	3
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What kind of intimacy is meaningful to you? How intimate interactions foster individuals' sensemaking of innovation	3
Let's Talk! The Impact of a Scientist's Integrative Knowledge Network on Breakthrough Innovation	3
Making the most out of the innovation of meaning: The importance of inclusion for creativity in inside‐out envisioning	3
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Critical success factors for the innovativeness of the electronic industry: An analysis in developed and developing countries	3
Emotional Expressions in Front‐End Team Work Hamper the Originality of New Product Ideas	3
From Intention to Behaviour: How Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation and Job Fit Influence Employee Intrapreneurship in SMEs	2
The Disruptor's Dilemma: Exploring the Dynamic Optimal Distinctiveness Mechanisms of Disruptive New Entrants in Value Co‐Creation	2
Enhancing Innovative Work Behavior Through AI: Cognitive Absorption and the Role of a Paradox Mindset	2
Survey‐Based Research for Creativity and Innovation Management: Review and Recommendations	2
Catching but a glimpse?—Navigating crowdsourced solution spaces with transformer‐based language models	2
Conservatives, Progressives and Transformers: The Influence of Marketers' Biases on Sustainable Innovation	2
Managers' brokerage for business model innovation: A case study	2
When Does Team Identification Pertain to Creative Problem‐Solving Process?	2
Group creativity in the wild: When building on ideas enhances the generation and selection of creative ideas	2
Predictive or imaginative futures? Experimenting with alternative future‐making approaches	2
Profiting From Frugal Innovation: A Strategy‐Tripod‐View and Evidence From China	2
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Evolution of motivation in co‐creation: Recruit, retain and complete in a project on new food product co‐creation	2
Exploring enablers of internal knowledge dissemination for boundary‐spanning industrial PhD students	2
Service innovation in Hong Kong organizations: Enablers and challenges to design thinking practices	2
The relationship between virtual work climate and digital creativity: The role of remote work self‐efficacy and proactive personality	2
Can We Tell the Difference? A Turing Test on Human Perceptions of Innovation Ideas in Text Created by ChatGPT	2