| Virtual teams constitute a relatively new knowledge area that has risen from two recent changes: the globalization of industry and markets, and advances in information communication technology tools. Continual technological advancement is set against a backdrop of international mergers, take-overs, and alliances, which invariably leads to more distributed collaboration, both formal and informal. The concept of creativity is often at the core of such proactive decisions. Higher Creativity for Virtual Teams: Developing Platforms for Co-Creation presents advanced research on the concept of creativity using virtual teams, demonstrating a specific focus and application for virtual teams. This book presents tools, processes, and frameworks to advance the overall concept that leveraging ideas from different locations in an organization and within extended networks is based on creativity, which can deliver innovation.
About the Author
Steven MacGregor is an innovation consultant in Catalonia, Spain and Research Fellow at IESE Business School, Barcelona where he works across two research streams Business Innovation and Business in Society. He also teaches at the University of Girona and the European University and holds advisory posts for the European Regions Research and Innovation (ERRIN) network in Brussels and the international Design series of conferences based in Croatia. Dr. MacGregor previously held a Spanish Government funded post-doctoral post at Ikerlan Technological Research Centre, part of the Mondragón Corporation in the Basque Country, the largest industrial cooperative in the world. He is a visiting professor at ETEO, the Business School of the University of Mondragón. He holds a PhD in Engineering Design Management from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and has completed visiting researcher positions at Stanford Universitys Centre for Design Research, the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie-Mellon University and the Grouplab Human Computer Interaction laboratory at the University of Calgary. He was listed in US publication Who s Who in Science & Engineering (2003) at age 25 and has published in Business Week Online, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, and the European Journal of Innovation Management. Teresa Torres Coronas, Ph. D., has a bachelors degree in economics (Barcelona University) and a Ph.D. in management (Rovira i Virgili University). She won first prize in the 2000 edition of EADA related management research. She is the author of the book Valuing Brands (Ediciones Gestión 2000. Spain), co-author or the book Retrieve Your Creativity (Septem Ediciones, Spain), co-editor of the book Changing the way you teach: Creative tools for management education, (Septem Ediciones, Spain, in press), and author of many articles and conference papers about intangible management, management education, and applied creativity and TI. She is managem |
