The organization in tension between creation and rationalization: facing management views to artistic and scientific creators
Résumé
Organizations are torn between contradictory logics: they have to create in order “to stay in the race,” but there can be no durable creation without rationalizing and organizing logic.
Creating means breaking with pre-established plans, accepting one’s own fear of the unknown, and managing the conflicts that creative breakthroughs will inevitably raise with the advocates of rationalizing orthodoxy, embodied in organizational routines that are as reassuring as they are rigid.
For this reason we shall try to go beyond classic management approaches to creativity by throwing light on the dialectical tension between creation and rationalization, taking philosophical, psycho- logical and sociological detours along the way. By juxtaposing the management viewpoint with that of artistic and scientific creators, these “productive detours” will enable us to see the links between creation and management in a different light.