1st Edition

Creative Leadership Contexts and Prospects

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

There has never been a better time to study, practice, and experience creative leadership. In the fluid and turbulent economic and social environments of the 21st century, creative leadership has become a cardinal force in the creation and evolution of adaptive organizations. In the last two decades, organizational science has witnessed a rapid increase in the number of studies on the nature,... Read more

Part I: Foundations of Creative Leadership





1. Introduction: Connecting Creative Leadership’s Strands of Research



Charalampos Mainemelis, Olga Epitropaki, and Ronit Kark





2. On the Relationship Between Creative Leadership and Contextual Variability



Charalampos Mainemelis





3. Unpacking the Socio-cognitive Foundations of Creative Leadership: Bridging Implicit Leadership and Implicit Creativity Theories



Olga Epitropaki, Jennifer S. Mueller, and Robert G. Lord





Part II: Creative Leadership in Facilitative Contexts





4. Leading Creative Efforts: Common Functions and Common Skills



Michael D. Mumford, Colleen Durban, Yash Gujar, Julia Buck, and E. Michelle Todd





5. Leader Behaviors and Employee Creativity: Taking Stock of the Current State of Research



Christina E. Shalley and G. James Lemoine





6. Empowering Leadership and Team Creativity: The Roles of Team Learning Behavior, Team Creative Efficacy, and Team Task Complexity



Xiaomeng Zhang and Ho Kwong Kwan





7. Fostering the Creativity of Work Teams: Creative Leadership in the Midst of Diversity



Maria Kakarika





Part III: Creative Leadership in Directive Contexts





8. Creativity is not Enough: The WICS Model of Leadership



Robert J. Sternberg





9. The Creative Leadership Practices of Haute Cuisine Chefs



Isabelle Bouty, Marie-Léandre Gomez, and Marc Stierand





10. "It Must Give Birth to a World": Temporality and Creative Leadership for Artistic Innovation



Silviya Svejenova





 



Part IV: Creative Leadership in Integrative Contexts





11. Leading for Creative Synthesis: A Process-Based Model for Creative Leadership



Sarah Harvey, Chia-yu Kou, and Wenxin Xie





12. Brokerage and Creative Leadership: Process, Practice, and Possibilities



Elizabeth Long-Lingo





13. A Curatorial Metaphor for Creative Leadership



Robert Litchfield and Lucy L. Gilson





14. Exploring Integrative Creative Leadership in the Filmmaking Industry



Nicole Flocco, Filomena Canterino, Stefano Cirella, Jean-Francois Coget, and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani

Biography

Charalampos Mainemelis is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Director of the SEV Center of Excellence in Creative Leadership at ALBA Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece, Greece.





Olga Epitropaki is Professor of Management at Durham University Business School, UK.





Ronit Kark is Associate Professor of Organizational and Leadership Studies at the Department of Psychology at Bar Ilan University, Israel.

"Based at universities in Athens, Durham and Tel Aviv, the leading contemporary trio of academic researchers on creative leadership have gathered a state-of-the-field reader. Organized around their great insight that creative leaders variously facilitate, direct and integrate others’ contributions in producing creative work, this collection of 14 articles provides a wealth of valuable insights, both theoretical and practical." - David Slocum, "The Top 10 Creative Leadership Books From 2018," Forbes.com, January 13, 2019