Professur für Psychologie der Kreativität und Innovation, Innovationsmanagement, Interkulturelles Management, Forschungsmethoden
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Prof. Dr. Lisa Min Tang
Professorin für Psychologie der Kreativität, Innovationsmanagement, Internationales Management
E-Mail: min.tang@hochschule-schaffhausen.ch
Prof. Dr. Lisa Min Tang
Akademischer Werdegang | |
seit 2021 | Affiliierte Professorin für Psychologie der Kreativität, Innovationsmanagement und Internationales Management am Hochschulinstitut Schaffhausen, Schweiz |
seit 2017 | Leiterin, Institute for Creativity & Innovation, Hochschule für angewandtes Management, Deutschland |
seit 2013 | Professorin in interkulturelles Management, Hochschule für angewandtes Management (HAM), Deutschland |
seit 2013 | Hochschule für angewandtes Management, Ismaning, Deutschland
Interkulturelles Management; Kommunikation, Präsentation & Visualisierung; Länderstudie China I; Länderstudie China II; Statistik; Forschungsmethoden und angewandte Statistik; Vertiefende Forschungsmethoden; Psychology of Creativity & Innovation (in Englisch); Innovation Management & Design Thinking (in Englisch) |
2013 | Projektleiterin für Kurzprogramme, IUNworld GmbH, München, Deutschland |
2012-2014 | Konfuzius-Institut München, Deutschland
Chinesische Sprache (B1-B2); Kommunikation mit Chinesen |
2014 | Hochschule für angewandtes Management, Ismaning, Deutschland
International summer school “Effective Management of Creativity & Innovation” (Erasmus Intensive Program) |
2013 | Hochschule für angewandtes Management, Ismaning, Deutschland
International summer school “Effective Management of Creativity & Innovation” (Erasmus Intensive Program) |
2011 | Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China
Summer school “Applied Creativity across Domains” Creative Problem Solving: I & II, Research Project: I & II |
2008-2011 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Projektleiterin, Hochschule für angewandtes Management (HAM), Deutschland |
2006-2010 | Promotion zum Thema „China’s Young Inventors: A Systemic View of the Individual and Environmental Factors“ an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Deutschland
Abschluss: PhD in Psychologie und Pädagogik |
2006 | CEO Assistentin, TUI China Travel Co. Ltd., Beijing, V. R. China |
2003 – 2006 | Stellvertretende Direktorin der Abteilung für internationale Zusammenarbeit, School of Continuing Education & Teacher Training (SCETT), Beijing Normal University, Beijing, V. R. China |
2000-2003 | Masterstudium im internationalen Masterprogramm „Psychology of Excellence“ an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Deutschland Abschluss: M.A. in Psychologie und Pädagogik |
1998-2000 | Assistentin für interanationale Zusammenarbeit, Kunming Universität, Yunnan Provinz, V. R. China |
1994-1998 | Bachelorstudium an der Südwest-China Pädagogische Universität, Chongqing, V. R. China
Abschluss: B.A. in englische Sprachwissenschaft und Pädagogik |
Mitgliedschaften | |
seit 2023 | Vorstandsmitglied, International Society fort he Study of Creativity and Innovation (https://issci.online/) |
seit 2019 | Wissenschaftlicher Berater für die Sino-German Entrepreneur Alliance (https://www.linkedin.com/company/sg-ea/) |
seit 2019 | Wissenschaftlicher Berater für das Chinese-German Center for Technology & Innovation (http://cgc-ti.com/) |
seit 2018 | Mitglied der Task Force für Indigenous Psychology, Division 32 “Society for Humanistic Psychology”, American Psychological Association (http://www.indigenouspsych.org) |
seit 2016 | Mitglied der Division 10 “Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and Arts”, American Psychological Association (http://www.div10.org/) |
seit 2012 | Jury member of the International Exhibition for Ideas, Invention and Innovation (www.iena.de) |
Publikationen der Professur
Ivcevic, Z., Reiter-Palmon, R., Tang, M., & Grohman, M. (Eds.) (2024). Crises, creativity and innovation. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61782-9
Tang, M., Bai, X, & Hofreiter, S. (2023). Creative activities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Chinese and German observations. In D. D. Preiss, M. Singer & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), Innovation, creativity and change across cultures. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28206-5_8
Maimone, F., Tang, M., & Sinclair, M. (2022). Cross-cultural and intercultural dimensions of creativity in workplace. Frontiers in Communication (Research Topic in the form of an eBook). https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/9082/cross-cultural-and-intercultural-dimensions-of-creativity-in-the-workplace#overview
Reiter-Palmon, R., Tang, M., Ivcevic, Z., eds. (2022). Creativity and Innovation in Times of Crisis (COVID-19). Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. DOI: 10.3389/978-2-88974-916-4 (Research Topic in Frontiers in Psychology in the form of an eBook).
Gutting, D., Tang, M., & Hofreiter, S. (2021) (Eds.). Innovation und Kreativität in Chinas Wirtschaft – Deutsch-chinesische Kooperationen: Grundwissen, Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse. Springer Gabler.
Tang, M., & Werner, C. (2017) (Eds.). Handbook of the management of creativity and innovation: Theory and practice. Singapore: World Scientific Press.
Tang, M., Ivcevic, Z., Reiter-Palmon, R., & Grohman, M. (Eds.) (2024). How crises may relate to creativity and innovation? An introduction. In Z. Ivcevic, R. Reiter-Palmon, M. Tang, & M. Grohman (Eds.), Crises, creativity and innovation. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61782-9_1
Tang, M., Bai, X, & Hofreiter, S. (2023). Creative activities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Chinese and German observations. In D. D. Preiss, M. Singer & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), Innovation, creativity and change across cultures. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28206-5_8
Tang, M., & Hofreiter, S. (2021). Creativity and innovation: The Chinese and German conceptions and approaches. In D. Gutting, M. Tang & S. Hofreiter (Eds.), Innovation und Kreativität in Chinas Wirtschaft – Deutsch-chinesische Kooperationen: Grundwissen, Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse (pp. 1-34). Springer Gabler.
Hu, W., Zhang X., & Tang, M. (2021). Enhancement of creativity across lifespan in mainland China: Theoretical inquiries and practical examples in the new millennium. In Russ, S. W., Hoffmann, J. D., & Kaufman, J. C. (Eds.)(278-304), Handbook of lifespan development of creativity. Cambridge University Press.
Tang, M., & Schmidt, J. (2020). Fostering creativity in interdisciplinary and intercultural teams: The importance of team building and team management. In A. McKay, R. Reiter-Palmon & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.) (pp. 55-79), Creative success in teams. Academic Press.
Tang, M. (2020). Interdisciplinarity and creativity. In M. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (3rd Ed.). Elsevier.
Schmidt, J., & Tang, M. (2020). Digitalization in education: Challenges, trends and transformative potential (Chap. 16, pp. 287-312). In Harwardt, M., Niermann, P., Schmutte, A. & Steuernagel, A. (Hrsg.). Führen und Managen in der digitalen Transformation. Springer Verlag.
Tang, M., & Moser, M. (2019). Nomination of domestic and overseas creative celebrities: The German style and the factors behind it. In I. Lebuda & V. Glaveanu (Eds.), Palgrave handbook of social creativity research (Chap 19, pp. 297-315). Palgrave Macmillan.
Tang, M., Hu, W., & Zhang, H. (2017). Creative self-efficacy from the Chinese perspective: Review of studies in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. In M. Karwowski & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), The creative self: How our beliefs, self-efficacy, mindset, and identity impact our creativity (Chap. 13, pp. 237-257). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier.
Tang, M., Hofreiter, S., Werner, C. H., Zielińska, A., & Karwowski, M. (2024). “Who” is the best creative thinking partner? An experimental investigation of human-human, human-internet and human-AI co-creation. Journal of Creative Behavior. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1519
Tang, M., Hofreiter, S., Reiter-Palmon, R., Bai, X., & Murugavel, V. (2021). Creativity as a means to well-being in times of COVID-19 pandemic: Results of a cross-cultural study. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:601389. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.601389
Hofreiter, S., Zhou, X., Tang, M., Werner, C. H., & Kaufman, J. C. (2021). COVID-19 lockdown and creativity: Exploring the role of emotions and motivation on creative activities from the Chinese and German perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:617967. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.617967
Katz-Buonincontro, J., Hass, R., Kettler, T., Tang, L. M., & Hu, W. (2020). Partial measurement invariance of beliefs about teaching for creativity across U.S. and Chinese educators. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 91(2), 563-583. DOI: 10.1111/bjep.12379
Tang, M. (2019). Fostering creativity in intercultural and interdisciplinary teams: The VICTORY Model. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:2020. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02020
Tang M, Werner, C. H., & Hofreiter, S. (2018). Creativity alone does not make a star – social attributes of the nomination of creative icons: Results of a trend study in Germany. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1944. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01944
Tang, M., & Werner, H. C. (2017). An Interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to creativity and innovation: Evaluation of the EMCI ERASMUS Intensive Program. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 24, 268-278. DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2017.04.001
Tang, M., Werner, C., & Karwowski, M. (2016). Differences in creative mindset between Germany and Poland: The mediating effect of individualism and collectivism. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 21, 31-40. DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2016.05.004
Tang, M., Werner, C., Cao, G, Tumasjan, A., Shen, J., Shi, J., & Spörrle, M. (2015). Creative expression and its evaluation in work-related verbal tasks: A comparison between Chinese and German samples. Journal of Creative Behavior, 52(1), 91-103. DOI: 10.1002/jocb.134
Werner, C., Tang, M., Kruse, J., Kaufman, J., & Spörrle, M. (2014). The Chinese version of the Revised Creativity Domain Questionnaire (CDQ-R): First evidence for its factorial validity and systematic association with the Big Five. Journal of Creative Behavior, 48(4), 254-275. DOI: 10.1002/jocb.51
16.09./2024. Tang, M., Hofreiter, S., Werner, C. H., Zielińska, A., & Karwowski,M. (2024, Sept. 15-18). Human-Human, Human-Internet or Human-AI: Which collaboration is the most promising for creativity? An experimental study. Paper presented at the 8th MIC Conference 2024, Sardinia, Italy.
08.07./2024: Schmidt, J., & Tang, M. (2024, July 8-12). Career success and future skills: The hidden potential of motivation, creativity and innovation. Paper prestented at the 4th International Possiblity Studies Conference, University of Cambridge, UK.
13.09./2023: Thebelt, S., Hofreiter, S., Schmidt, J., & Tang, M. (2023, Sept. 12 – 15). Does green really matter? Exploring how and why building indoor environmental quality influences employee work satisfaction and engagement. 13. AOWI-Fachgruppentagung, Kassel, Germany
11.09./2023: Tang, M., & Hofreiter, S. (2023, September 11-13). Arts and sports biases in lay persons’ perceptions of creativity: A preliminary study. Paper presented at the 7th MIC Conference 2023, Trieste, Italy.
12.09./2023: Hofreiter, S., & Tang, M. (2023, September 11-13). Non-conformist achievers: Investigating the role of conscientiousness in scientific creative achievement. Paper presented at the 7th MIC Conference 2023, Trieste, Italy.
18.07./2023: Tang, M., Schmidt, J., Maisch, B., & Rueda, A. (2023, July 17-21). The Importance of experiential learning and networking in entrepreneurial education: Evaluation of the SCE Incoming Week. Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference of Possibility Studies 2023, Dublin, Ireland.
20.06./2022: Leading teams to VICTORY: Where creative theory meets practice. Workshop mit Wendy Grossman (Tufts University, USA) und Jeanette Guillemin (Northeastern University, USA) auf der 14. ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C’ 22), June 20-23, 2022, Venice, Italien.
13.08./2021: Creativity, well-being and social connectedness in times of COVID-19: A cross-cultural study. Symposium-Vortrag auf der 129. American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention, August 12-14, 2021 (virtuell).
12.07./2019 : Culture, creativity and innovation: The Chinese and German perspectives.
Plenarvortrag auf der 2. SOU Creativity Conference, July 11-14, 2019, Southern Oregon University, USA.
23.06./2018 (V. R. China): Fostering team creativity: The VICTORY Model.
Keynote auf der 5. Chinese Academic Conference on Creativity Research, 23-24 June, Jinan, P. R. China.
11.06./2018: How creativity meets innovation? – The ICI approaches.
Plenarvortrag mit Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Werner auf der „Creativity Week” an der Webster University, June 11-15, 2018, Geneva, Switzerland.
25.11./2016: Application of the sociocultural approach in creativity training.
Keynote auf dem Sino-American Creativity Forum, November 25, 2016, Beijing, P. R. China.
02.07./2015: Interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to creativity and innovation: From theory to practice.
Plenarvortrag auf der 12. International Conference on Excellence in Education: The Creativity – Innovation Challenge, July 1-4, 2015, Krakow, Poland.
03.08./2014: Talents approaching a globalized future: Three guiding principles for the future of talent management and development across educational institutions.
Keynote mit Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Werner (Hochschule für angewandtes Management) und Prof. Dr. Matthias Spörrle (Privatuniversität Schloss Seeburg) auf der 13. Asia-Pacific Conference on Giftedness, August 3 – 6, 2014, Beijing, P. R. China.