Cultural Indoctrination and Open Innovation in Human Creativity

Abstract

This chapter explores the connection between cultural indoctrination (CI) and open innovation in human creativity and its importance in an era of global hypercompetition. As organizations are confronted with the need to engage with stakeholders from a variety of different cultural backgrounds, the need to understand the ways in which cultural imperatives play into individual and collective performances becomes increasingly important. Based on an integrated literature review, this chapter examines the following eight factors included in CI: child development, cultural institutionalization, cultural intelligence, language structure and acquisition, social learning theory, religion, social capital, and values orientation theory (VOT). It is from these factors that a conceptual framework is developed for future application in theory and practice in open innovation.