Caneel Joyce
Asst. Prof. of Management at the London School of Economics. PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Haas School of Business. I write, research, and teach about teamwork, design & innovation management to business leaders & creative professionals.
| Headline: | Educator |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://caneelian.com |
| Industries: | Computing, Education, Entertainment, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Media, Mobile |
| Skills: | Business, Design, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Product design, Public speaking, Writing |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Visas: | USA, UK, British Commonwealth |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding mentors, Giving back, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Internships, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Shadowing |
| Tags: | academia, behavioral research, brainstorming, creativity, design, idea generation, Innovation, leadership, managing teams, negotiations, new product development, organizational behavior, Psychology, social media, social science, web 2.0, writing |
| Schools: | University of California System - Berkeley, University of California System - Los Angeles |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | London School Of Economics |
| Position: | Lecturer |
| Time period: | January 2009 - Present |
| Employer: | University of California, Berkeley |
| Position: | Dissertation: Boxed in, set free: Curvilinear effects of constraint on creativity |
| Description: | Committee: Barry Staw (chair), Philip Tetlock, Cameron Anderson, and Robert MacCoun
My dissertation is about how constraint – restrictions imposed on freedom such as rules, boundaries, and scarcity – paradoxically influences the creative process. While creativity research historically holds that freedom from constraint is essential to creativity, recent work in the decision-making literature suggests a paradox of choice, such that too much choice can be paralyzing and undermine good judgment and satisfaction. Given that judgment and choice are important but often-overlooked aspects of creativity, my dissertation aims to resolve these apparently opposing theories. I theorize that constraint has a curvilinear effect on creativity, and conducted four studies designed to allow for non-monotonic effects. I test this theory using three lab experiments with individuals and one multi-method field study of 62 new product development teams. I also examine three moderators (expertise, power, and group conflict), and three mediators (perceived risk associated with originality, need for cognitive closure, and team value convergence). As predicted, results show that constraint has a curvilinear (inverted U-shaped) effect on creativity and originality, despite its linearly negative effect on intrinsic motivation. These findings provide encouragement to organizations that are institutionally embedded, resource-scarce, or otherwise restricted. Creativity is resilient, and in fact performs best when given some challenge to overcome. The expected contribution is a resolution of competing theories from the creativity and decision-making literatures with regard to the benefits of freedom and choice in organizations and society. |
| Employer: | Haas School of Business |
| Position: | Lecturer |
| Time period: | January 2004 - December 2008 |
| Description: | Intructor, BA-105: Organizational Behavior (Summer 2008; Haas School of Business)
Curriculum Advisor and Facillitator, Haas@Work innovation program (clients include Cisco Systems, Sunpower, Disney, and LAM Research) (2006-present) Graduate Student Instructor, MBA-252: Negotiations & Conflict Mediation taught by Barbara Mellers, Ph.D. (Fall 2007; Haas School of Business) Guest Lecturer, MBA-252: Negotiations & Conflict Mediation taught by Barbara Mellers, Ph.D. (Fall 2007; Haas School of Business) Guest Lecturer, MBA-290-T-3: Innovation in Services and Business Models taught by Henry Chesbrough, Ph.D. (Fall 2007; Haas School of Business) Graduate Student Instructor, MBA-290-L: Leadership (Fall 2006; Haas School of Business) Guest Lecturer, MBA-290-P: New Product Development taught by Sara Beckman, Ph.D. (Fall 2005 & 2006; Haas School of Business) |
| Employer: | Total Health & Productivity Corporation (Thap), Emeryville, California |
| Position: | Marketing & Communications Manager |
| Time period: | January 2001 - December 2003 |
| Employer: | Spectrum Consulting, Los Angeles, CA |
| Position: | Organizational Design Consultant |
| Time period: | December 1999 - November 2000 |
| Employer: | Edgesoft, Inc., Santa Monica, CA |
| Position: | Sales and Marketing Associate |
| Time period: | December 1997 - November 2000 |
| Employer: | Suissa Miller Advertising, Los Angeles, CA |
| Position: | Promotions Coordinator |
| Time period: | November 1998 |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of California System - Berkeley |
| Time period: | 2009 |
| Degree: | Business Administration, PhD |
| University: | University of California System - Berkeley |
| Time period: | 2005 |
| Degree: | Business Administration, MSc |
| University: | University of California System - Los Angeles |
| Time period: | 2000 |
| Degree: | Communication Studies, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | Joyce, Caneel K.; Jennings, Kyle E.; Hey, Jonathan H. G.; Kalil, Thomas & Grossman, Jeffrey C. (2009). Getting down to business: Using speedstorming to initiate creative cross-disciplinary collaboration, Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol. 19, No. 1, 57-67.
Hey, Jonathan H. G.; Joyce, Caneel K.; Jennings, Kyle E.; Kalil, Thomas & Grossman, Jeffrey C. (2009). Putting the discipline in interdisciplinary: Using speedstorming to teach and initiate creative collaboration in nanoscience. Journal of Nanoeducation, Vol. 1, No. 1, 75–85. Joyce, Caneel K.; Chatman, Jennifer A. & Lyons, R. (2007). Innovation in services: Corporate culture and investment banking, California Management Review, Vol. 50, No. 1, 174-191. Hey, Jonathan H. G.; Joyce, Caneel K. & Beckman, Sara L. (2007) Framing innovation: Negotiating shared frames during early design phases, Journal of Design Research, Vol. 6. No. 1, 79-99. Chatman, Jennifer A.; Wong, Elaine M. & Joyce, Caneel K. (2008). When do people make the place? Considering the interactionist foundations of the attraction-selection-attrition model, p. 65-88 in Brent Smith (Ed.), The People Make the Place: Dynamic Linkages between Individuals and Organizations, A Festschrift in Honor of Benjamin Schneider. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Joyce, Caneel K. (2010). Capgras: The Art of Hunter Mack, Ambivalent magazine, forthcoming. |
| Papers: | The blank page: Creativity and voluntary constraint in new product development teams.
Curvilinear effects of constraint on creativity: Laboratory evidence from a product design task. Boxed in, set free: A theory of creativity under constraint. Teaching design thinking. (with Sara L. Beckman and Lora Oehlberg) |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Member, Academy of Management: Organizational Behavior, Entrepreneurship, Organization and Management Theory, Managerial Cognition divisions |
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