Creative Leadership

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 of creative leadership.

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.

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