Handbook of Management and Creativity

by Chris Bilton (Editor), Stephen Cummings (Editor)

Overview

This Handbook draws on current research and case studies to consider how managers can become more creative across four aspects of their business: innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and organization - and does so in an accessible, engaging and user-friendly format.

That managers need to be 'more creative' has become something of a mantra, but little has been written about what this actually means and how it might be achieved. The Handbook of Management and Creativity presents a coherent collection of original chapters from leaders in multiple disciplines, combining current research pre-occupations with practical solutions and strategies in the field. Each chapter combines new research, practical examples and tools, case studies, visual aids, and questions for discussion, designed to stimulate debate and reflection in the workplace or in the seminar room.

The book is thematically organized, making it easy to navigate for the general reader and allowing managers, university course directors and students to extract readings relevant to their individual requirements. It is suitable for managers across all industries and advanced students of management and creativity, as well as researchers interested in applying creativity research to industry.

Contributors include: N. Beech, C. Bilton, R. Bridgstock, S. Cummings, D. Eikhof, D. Grant, G. Greig, E. Gulledge, R. Hall, G. Hearn, L. Heracleous, V. Heywood, C. Jacobs, L. Keung, L. Lim, M. Malle Petty, K. Oakley, D. Oliver, S. Oyama, S. Proctor-Thomson, G. Schiuma, F. Sorensen, C. Steyaert, J. Sundbo, T. Thanem, S. Vaerlander, B. Walker, S. Wilson, Z. Zhu

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783475278
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	09/25/2014
Series:	Research Handbooks in Business and Management series
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Edited by Chris Bilton, Reader in Creative Industries, Centre for Cultural & Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK and Stephen Cummings, Professor of Strategy and Co-Director of The Atom Innovation Space, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Table of Contents

Contents:

1. A Framework for Creative Management and Managing Creativity
Chris Bilton and Stephen Cummings

PART I: CREATIVE INNOVATION
Introduction to Part I; Creative Innovation
Chris Bilton and Stephen Cummings

2. Improvisational Practice and Innovation: Shock, Horror and Confounding Expectations in Film Making
Elizabeth Gulledge, Gail Greig and Nic Beech

3. The Curious Case of the Embedded Creative: Creative Cultural Occupations Outside the Creative Industries
Greg Hearn and Ruth Bridgstock

4. The Lab is Back – Towards a New Model of Innovation in Services
Jon Sundbo and Flemming Sørensen

5. Beyond Western Views of Creativity and Innovation
Lorraine Lim and Shinji Oyama

PART II: CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Introduction to PART II: Creative Entrepreneurship
Chris Bilton and Stephen Cummings

6. Innovation is not the only thing
Stephen Cummings, Margaret Maile Petty and Ben Walker

7. Learning to Fail: Lessons from Happenstance
Chris Bilton

8. Good Work: Rethinking Cultural Entrepreneurship
Kate Oakley

9. Going all the Way: The Creativity of Entrepreneuring in the Full Monty
Chris Steyaert

PART III: CREATIVE LEADERSHIP
Introduction to Part III: Creative Leadership
Chris Bilton and Stephen Cummings

10. Leading for Creativity in Turbulent Times
Lucy K Küng

11. Unleashed? Developing Creativity Friendly Leadership Theory
Suze Wilson and Sarah Proctor-Thomson

12. Creativity in Leadership Development
Richard Hall and David Grant

13. Promoting Ensemble: Creative Leadership in Practice at the Royal Shakespeare Company
Vikki Heywood, Chris Bilton and Stephen Cummings

PART IV: CREATIVE ORGANISATION
Introduction to Part IV: Creative Organisation
Chris Bilton and Stephen Cummings

14. Transorganisational Work and Production in the Creative Industries
Doris Eikhof

15. Fun-parks or parkour? The ambiguities and paradox of planning pro-creative office design.
Torkild Thanem and Sara Winterstorm Värlander

16. Balancing Divergence and Convergence: Stimulating Creativity through Hybrid Thinking
David Oliver, Loizos Heracleous, Claus Jacobs

17. Shaping Creative Organization through Arts-Based Interventions
Giovanni Schiuma

PART V: AROUND THE CREATIVE CYCLE
17. Creative Management in Practice: Bisociation with ‘Timely Balance’
Zhichang Zhu, Chris Bilton and Stephen Cummings

Editorial Reviews

Chris Bilton's and Stephen Cummings' Handbook of Management and Creativity collects some of the very best research on creativity and why and how it matters to companies and their management. It is an important addition to our understanding of the management of creativity and talented and creative people. —
- Richard Florida, University of Toronto, Canada, New York University, US and author, Rise of the Creative Class

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