Call for papers Special volume on Organizational Creativity and Sustainability Theme “Paths for Integrating Creativity and Sustainability” Paul Shrivastava Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3B3H9 The recent financial crises, the ongoing global shift towards new economic powers, protests against economic inequalities, increasing environmental concerns, and the accelerating pace of new technology development and risks, are some of the challenges facing organizations today (Piketty, 2014). It is essential that or- ganizations respond to these challenges with creative, eco-efficient and eco-effective innovations, which help conserve and improve natural, social and financial resources (Lozano, 2011; Rifkin, 2014; Shrivastava and Statler, 2012). This could help organizations to cope with the risks and challenges of the market, and of workers, consumers and public demands for protecting the environment for present and future generations. Regardless of the sector, private or public, organizations must integrate creativity into their system to provide more dynamic internal and external responses that go beyond the current managerial tool-kit. Historically, the study of organizational creativity has faced major challenges. Although it is considered to be a vital ability, which must exist in and across all organizations, knowledge about creativity is highly fragmented (Rickards et al., 2008). Scholars and practitioners from such different fields such as psychology, arts, management, innovation, and engineering have kept their under- standing of creativity within the boundaries of their particular practice or research disciplines. However, it has been demonstrated that creativity can be approached from cross-disciplinary per- spectives to the benefit of organizations, and their increasingly diverse role in modern societies that are confronted with local, regional and global challenges (Sternberg and Lubart, 1991). In that context, models, frameworks and policy options are be- ing developed, which create more comprehensive and effective approaches for empowering organizational creativity. These models support processes of exploring individual creativity (Amabile, 1996), introduce and explain creativity enhancing tech- niques (Rickards and Moger, 2000), and the relationships between creativity and sustainability (Ramus and Steger, 2000). Creativity can help to catalyze the envisioning and implementation of new production processes and structures, and lead to improved quality, efficiency and safety for workers, consumers and the eco-system on whose health which we are all dependent. In these perspectives, creativity is a catalyst for innovation of products and services, as source of resources and improved energy efficiency, and as a foundation for sustainable policies and practices (Gupta, 2013; Shrivastava et al., 2012). This ‘call for papers’ (CfP) is designed, to bring together aca- demics, consultants, artists, production company managers, and professionals in areas of science and engineering, social sciences and the arts, and management studies to address the diverse in- terconnections of organizational creativity, with a particular emphasis on achieving sustainability in the sense of the triple bottom-line during the short and long term, i.e. satisfying needs of society and the planet as well as those of commerce. We encourage transdisciplinary approaches, in particular, which can help to merge management techniques with aesthetic sensibilities, engi- neering solutions with management perspectives, and manage- ment analyses with artistic tools. We seek solutions that are financially sound and organizationally stable and result in ecolog- ical and social sustainability. In addition to traditional academic articles, the Guest Editors (GEs) also welcome contributions, which explore new frontiers for the practice of management in organizations. The team envisions that this Special Volume (SV) of the Journal of Cleaner Production, (JCLP) will be creative and disruptive in its own right and will explore what it means to go beyond the current managerial tool-kit in relation to creative sustainability in the field of academic journals. The Guest Editors, recognize the importance and value of the work of creative practitioners and facilitators in organizational creativity and sustainability. We invite authors to engage creative practitioners and facilitators to produce content that could be considered creative in an academic context. The creative outcome solicited in this CfPs is to highlight the integration of academic and practitioner writing so as to stimulate dialogues that catalyze and empower change, not only in organizations but within academic journals as a whole. In order too foster such holistic and seamless integration of perspectives:  Contributions from creative practitioners' teams are encouraged in the form of case studies, “notes from the field” describing practical lessons, articulation of approaches developed by cre- ative practitioners and facilitators, which integrate organiza- tional creativity and sustainability. E-mail address: paul.shri@gmail.com. Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Cleaner Production journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jclepro http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.06.015 0959-6526 Journal of Cleaner Production xxx (2014) 1e3 Please cite this article in press as: Shrivastava, P., Special volume on Organizational Creativity and Sustainability, Journal of Cleaner Production (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.06.015