Creative Leadership

1 Introduction

Connecting Creative Leadership’s Strands of Research

Charalampos Mainemelis, Olga Epitropaki, and Ronit Kark

Introduction

The concept of creative leadership was introduced in the 1950s by Selznick (1984) in an attempt to differentiate the more generative manifestations of leadership from both technical administration and artificial intelligence systems (Stark, 1963). By 2018, creative leadership has become more important and relevant than ever before. With the advent of the global, digital, and knowledge-based economy, leaders require creativity in order to build and develop adaptive organizations. Moreover, as creativity and innovation are now business imperatives for many types of organizations, the ability to foster the creativity ...