文档介绍：Blackwell Publishing , UK and Malden, USACAIMCreativity and Innovation Management0963-1690Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2004134ARTICLESCOLLABORATIVE PRODUCT CREATIONCREATIVITY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
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Creativity munication:
A Theoretical Framework for
Collaborative Product Creation
Stephan Sonnenburg
Most creative acts occur in a collaborative context. Recent research contributions see the
relevance of collaborative creativity but they lack a theoretical basis. What exactly is under-
stood by collaborative creativity and above all, how it is examined, appears not to be the focus
of well-founded analyses. The key objective of this paper is to present a new model charac-
terizing collaborative product creation. This model describes theoretical essence needed for
any creative collaboration. As a result, the phenomenon munication is crystallized as
the driving force for collaborative creativity. The article is divided into three sections. First,
the paper focuses on creative collaboration in previous creativity research. It is shown that a
different understanding of collaborative creativity exists. Second, four dimensions of the new
model are presented: type munication, course of performance, working style and the
relation between the nature of problems and the implication of solutions. L