Georgiana Balau
Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. G. Balau
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- g.balau@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0977-4171
Georgiana Balau is a lecturer at International Studies.
Teaching
Georgiana Bălău is a very passionate and enthusiastic Lecturer within the International Studies program. She teaches Economics (1st year course), Sociolinguistics (1st year course), PRINS (3rd year course). Her previous teaching responsibilities involved taking the roles of first supervisor and second assessor for Master’s theses. During her doctoral studies Georgiana also taught within the specialization course Strategy & Innovation Management, bachelor level, at the Department of Innovation Management and Strategy, Faculty of Economics and Business at University of Groningen.
Research background
Topics of interest: organizational/team/individual creativity, cognitive styles, co-creation.
Georgiana Bălău received her PhD from the Department of Innovation Management and Strategy, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, in April 2017. Georgiana is particularly interested in research on creativity at different levels of analysis, understanding how individuals, teams and organizations process information and collaborate to get to creative outcomes. To address her scientific objectives, Georgiana has conducted experimental research and also relied on survey data on SME companies. Her research is published in R&D Management Journal, Creativity and Innovation Management Journal.
Prior education
Georgiana Bălău received her Research Master in Economics and Business: Production, Organization and Marketing (specialization: Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour) in 2011 and her Master of Science in Human Resource Management, in 2010, at the same Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen. She was awarded with the title of Best Graduate when receiving her first master degree in Social Management and Community Development from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences, at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania. She received her bachelor degree in Sociology from the same Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania.
Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculteitsbureau
- International Studies
- Bǎlǎu G., Bij H. van der & Faems D. (2020), Should SMEs get out of the building? Examining the role of customer co‐creation on radical organizational creativity, R & D Management 50(4): 535-547.
- Bǎlǎu G., Faems D. & Bij H. (2019), Team experiential cognitive style and team performance: The moderating impact of workplace setting, Creativity and Innovation Management 28(3): 343-354.
- Balau G. (10 April 2017), Understanding how to stimulate individual, team and organizational creativity: The role of cognitive styles, faultlines and co-creation (Dissertatie, SOM research school, University of Groningen). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Faems D., Bij H. van der.
- Balau G., Faems D. & Bij H. van der (2012), Individual Characteristics and Their Influence on Innovation: A Literature Review. In: Duysters G., DeHoyos A. & Kaminishi K. (Eds.), PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION AND MANAGEMENT. Wuhan: Wuhan Univ. 887-901.