@article{EggersLovelaceKraft2017,
  author    = {Eggers, Fabian and Lovelace, Kathi J. and Kraft, Frederik},
  title     = {Fostering creativity through critical thinking: The case of business start-up simulations},
  series = {Creativity and innovation management},
  volume    = {26},
  journal   = {Creativity and innovation management},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0963-1690},
  doi       = {10.1111/caim.12225},
  pages     = {266 -- 276},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Research suggests a positive link between critical thinking and creativity. However, this relationship has not been measured in an empirical study. This study aims to explore whether critical thinking can serve to enhance creativity and whether creativity positively mediates the relationship between critical thinking and business performance. In this study, we analyse these relationships within the entrepreneurial context of a web-based business start-up simulation. We examined data from 26 teams of three to four senior business students and found partial support for our hypotheses. Critical thinking positively influenced creativity, measured as the total number of unique product designs. Creativity (unique product designs) also positively mediated the link between critical thinking and performance. This effect, however, did not exist when creativity was assessed through advertisement designs. This research contributes to entrepreneurship and innovation management by demonstrating the importance of critical thinking as a basis for creativity and testing this relationship in a business start-up simulation context.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Kraft2018,
  author    = {Kraft, Frederik},
  title     = {Be Creative, Now!},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414009},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {VII, 230},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Purpose - This thesis set out to explore, describe, and evaluate the reality behind the rhetoric of freedom and control in the context of creativity. The overarching subject is concerned with the relationship between creativity, freedom, and control, considering freedom is also seen as an element of control to manage creativity. Design/methodology/approach - In-depth qualitative data gathered from at two innovative start-ups. Two ethnographic studies were conducted. The data are based on participatory observations, interviews, and secondary sources, each of which included a three months field study and a total of 41 interviews from both organizations. Findings - The thesis provides explanations for the practice of freedom and the control of creativity within organizations and expands the existing theory of neo-normative control. The findings indicate that organizations use complex control systems that allow a high degree of freedom that paradoxically leads to more control. Freedom is a cover of control, which in turn leads to creativity. Covert control even results in the responsibility to be creative outside working hours. Practical implications - Organizations, which rely on creativity might use the results of this thesis. Positive workplace control of creativity provides both freedom and structure for creative work. While freedom leads to organizational members being more motivated and committing themselves more strongly to their and the organization's goals, and a specific structure also helps to provide the requirements for creativity. Originality/value - The thesis provides an insight into an approach to workplace control, which has mostly neglected in creativity research and proposes a modified concept of neo-normative control. It serves to provide a further understanding of freedom for creativity and to challenge the liberal claims of new control forms.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PuteanusBirkenbachKraftIkuta2015,
  author    = {Puteanus-Birkenbach, Katja and Kraft, Frederik and Ikuta, Yoshi},
  title     = {Ideengenerierung, Kreativit{\"a}t, Design Thinking},
  series = {Entrepreneurship education: das Potsdamer Modell der Gr{\"u}ndungslehre und -beratung},
  journal   = {Entrepreneurship education: das Potsdamer Modell der Gr{\"u}ndungslehre und -beratung},
  publisher = {BoD},
  address   = {Norderstedt},
  isbn      = {978-3-7357-6095-1},
  pages     = {106 -- 119},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {de}
}