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Understanding innovation: A reorientation -- Basic concepts. Products: What does innovation lead to? -- Process: How are innovative ideas formed? -- Person: The personal resources that support innovation -- Press: Where the innovation happens? -- Managing innovation. Paradox: The contradictions of innovation -- Innovation and organizational performance -- Managing the paradoxes of innovation -- General conclusions

"Creativity is typically perceived to be a positive, constructive attribute and, yet, highly effective, novel crimes are committed which illustrate that creativity can also be utilised to serve a darker and more destructive end. But how can these 'creative criminals' be stopped? Adopting a psychological approach, renowned subject experts Cropley and Cropley draw upon concepts such as 'Person', 'Process', 'Press', and 'Product' to explain how existing psychological theories of creativity can be applied to a more subtle subset of ingenuity; that is to say, criminal behaviour and its consequences. Creativity and Crime does not look at felony involving impulsive, reflexive, or merely deviant behaviour, but rather the novel and resourceful measures employed by certain criminals to more effectively achieve their law-breaking goals. The book transcends the link between crime and creativity and proposes a range of preventive measures for law-enforcers. Scholars and graduates alike will find this an invaluable and illuminating read"--

The Ethics of Creativity illuminates the thorny issues that arise when novel creative ideas collide with what we believe to be ''right'' or ''good''. This book tackles questions of when creativity and ethics tend to coincide and when conflict, and how both might be harnessed to support a brighter future for all