Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox - Hardcover

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Barbara Townley is Professor of Management and Director of the Institute for Capitalising on Creativity at the University of St Andrews. Her research concerns the introduction of managerial technologies (appraisal systems, business planning and performance measures) and the impact of these on institutional logics that inform organizational functioning. Her most recent book is Reason's Neglect (2008). Nic Beech is Professor of Management at the University of St Andrews. He is the founding chair of the British Academy of Management special interest group on identity and co-chair of the Scottish Network on Organizational Vitality. His research is mainly focused on the social dynamics of organizational life - the intertwining of people's identities, relationships and practices. He is co-author (with Eugene McKenna) of The Essence of HRM (2008, 2nd edition).