Mainemelis, B. and Kark, R. and Epitropaki, O. (2015) 'Creative leadership : a multi-context conceptualization.', Academy of management annals., 9 (1). pp. 393-482.
Abstract
Various streams of organizational research have examined the relationship between creativity and leadership, albeit using slightly different names such as “creative leadership”, “leading for creativity and innovation”, and “managing creatives”. In this article, we review this dispersed body of knowledge and synthesize it under a global construct of creative leadership, which refers to leading others toward the attainment of a creative outcome. Under this unifying construct, we classify three more narrow conceptualizations that we observe in the literature: facilitating employee creativity; directing the materialization of a leader's creative vision; and integrating heterogeneous creative contributions. After examining the contextual characteristics associated with the three conceptualizations, we suggest that they represent three distinct collaborative contexts of creative leadership. We discuss the theoretical implications of a multi-context framework of creative leadership, especially in terms of resolving three persisting problems in the extant literature: lack of definitional clarity, shortage of nuanced theories, and low contextual sensitivity.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (1055Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19416520.2015.1024502 |
Publisher statement: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in The Academy of Management Annals on 27/02/2015, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/19416520.2015.1024502. |
Date accepted: | No date available |
Date deposited: | 28 April 2016 |
Date of first online publication: | 27 February 2015 |
Date first made open access: | 01 July 2016 |
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