Creativity in information systems research : a systematic literature review

Simonovič, Mojca (author), Popovič, Aleš (author), Černe, Matej (author)

For more than six decades, creativity has been the cornerstone of diverse scientific disciplines, including psychology, sociology, and organizational behavior (OB) studies. Its fundamental role in guiding business prospects, driving development, and fueling economic growth has made it an essential research theme in many fields. Yet, despite its importance, scholars within the information systems (IS) discipline have highlighted the significant lack of attention paid to this concept in their research. The transformative role creativity plays in contemporary business environments, along with the ever-present need to innovate, compete, and grow, sparked our curiosity. Is creativity still an understudied area in the IS discipline, as it was 10 years ago? Our goal was not simply to examine the current state of creativity studies within the IS field, but to chart its evolution from 2010 to the present day. Through a comprehensive systematic literature review, we scrutinized papers from prestigious journals and proceedings of acclaimed conferences within the IS field. The findings map out the trajectory of creativity studies, yet also point to an emerging research gap. Accordingly, the paper provides invaluable insights into future research directions, emphasizing the need to fill the creativity studies void within the discipline of IS.

• Language: English
• Keywords: economic analyses, information systems, research, literature review, creativity, business analytics, academic research
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 45-60
• Numbering: Vol. 26, iss. 1, article no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164748
• UDC: 331.108
• ISSN on article: 2335-4216
• DOI: 10.15458/2335-4216.1331
• COBISS.SI-ID: 187821571
• Publication date in RUL: 08.11.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Economic and business review
• Publisher: Ekonomska fakulteta
• ISSN: 2335-4216
• COBISS.SI-ID: 268649216

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: ekonomske analize, informacijski sistemi, raziskave, pregled literature

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P2-0442-2023
• Name: Podatkovne vede in digitalna preobrazba

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J5-2555-2020
• Name: Oblikovanje organizacije v digitalni dobi