Creative Leadership: Contexts and Prospects

285 Pages·2019·1.694 MB·English

by  Charalampos Mainemelis, Olga Epitropaki, and Ronit Kark

Creative Leadership
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, skills, and processes of creative leadership. The resulting
accumulated body of knowledge has remained for many years dispersed and
fragmented across multiple strands of organizational research. This volume
seeks to foster the cross-fertilization of scientific knowledge and insight by
bringing together authoritative contributions from leading scholars whose
work is located in different strands of creative leadership research.
Creative Leadership: Contexts and Prospects builds upon a recently
introduced multi-context framework that integrates metatheoretically three
conceptualizations of creative leadership found in the extant literature:
Facilitating employee creativity; Directing the materialization of a leader’s
creative vision; and Integrating heterogeneous creative contributions. These
three conceptualizations reflect essential differences in the enactment of
creative leadership across various collaborative contexts of creative work,
and they underlie the intellectual efforts of different research strands.
The collection of chapters in Creative Leadership: Contexts and Prospects
offers the latest thinking on creative leadership in facilitative, directive, and
integrative contexts, and a stimulating set of ideas for crafting the next
generation of nuanced theories and empirical studies in the field.
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.
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Contexts and Prospects
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Charalampos Mainemelis,
Olga Epitropaki, and Ronit Kark
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in the hope of a better and more creatively led future.

Contents
Preface x
List of Figures xii
List of Tables xiii
List of Contributors xiv
Acknowledgments xvii
PART I
Foundations of Creative Leadership 1
1 Introduction: Connecting Creative Leadership’s Strands
of Research 3
CHARALAMPOS MAINEMELIS, OLGA EPITROPAKI, AND RONIT KARK
2 On the Relationship Between Creative Leadership and
Contextual Variability 23
CHARALAMPOS MAINEMELIS
3 Unpacking the Socio-cognitive Foundations of Creative
Leadership: Bridging Implicit Leadership and Implicit
Creativity Theories 39
OLGA EPITROPAKI, JENNIFER S. MUELLER, AND ROBERT G. LORD
PART II
Creative Leadership in Facilitative Contexts 57
4 Leading Creative Efforts: Common Functions and
Common Skills 59
MICHAEL D. MUMFORD, COLLEEN DURBAN, YASH GUJAR,
JULIA BUCK, AND E. MICHELLE TODD
viii Contents
5 Leader Behaviors and Employee Creativity: Taking Stock
of the Current State of Research 79
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 95
XIAOMENG ZHANG AND HO KWONG KWAN
7 Fostering the Creativity of Work Teams: Creative Leadership
in the Midst of Diversity 122
MARIA KAKARIKA
PART III
Creative Leadership in Directive Contexts 137
8 Creativity Is Not Enough: The WICS Model of Leadership 139
ROBERT J. STERNBERG
9 The Creative Leadership Practices of Haute Cuisine Chefs 156
ISABELLE BOUTY, MARIE-LÉANDRE GOMEZ, AND MARC STIERAND
10 “It Must Give Birth to a World”: Temporality and Creative
Leadership for Artistic Innovation 171
SILVIYA SVEJENOVA
PART IV
Creative Leadership in Integrative Contexts 189
11 Leading for Creative Synthesis: A Process-Based Model
for Creative Leadership 191
SARAH HARVEY, CHIA-YU KOU, AND WENXIN XIE
12 Brokerage and Creative Leadership: Process, Practice,
and Possibilities 208
ELIZABETH LONG LINGO
13 A Curatorial Metaphor for Creative Leadership 228
ROBERT C. LITCHFIELD AND LUCY L. GILSON
Contents ix
14 Exploring Integrative Creative Leadership in the
Filmmaking Industry 244
NICOLE FLOCCO, FILOMENA CANTERINO, STEFANO CIRELLA,
JEAN-FRANCOIS COGET, AND ABRAHAM B. (RAMI) SHANI
Index 259