Career Creativity

Maury A. Peiperl is Associate Dean and Director of the Careers Research Initiative at London Business School. He has taught, written, and consulted for over fifteen years on four continents in the areas of executive careers, human resource management, performance, and change, and sits on the boards of several companies. He is also a director of a consulting firm specializing in performance, change, communications, and careers issues.Michael B. Arthur is Professor of Management at the Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston. He has written and researched widely on the subject of careers, and his research focuses on alternative ways to link individual career theory and collective action.N. Anand is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School. Anand's research interests include the constitution and emergence of industrial fields, the organization of the commercial music industry, knowledge management in professional service firms, and behaviour in financial services firms.

Whether by choice or by chance, a growing proportion of the population in major countries no longer have job security or career paths within stable organizations. Career Creativity tackles all the latest issues stemming from this major shift: the rise of knowledge workers, the problem of achieving work/life balance, the mixed blessing of being free agents, and the power of those with talent in creative industries. The collective insights of leading scholars map a new intellectual territory that also has practical implications for organizational and social policy.

• 1. Introducing Career Creativity ; PART I: CREATIVE CAREERS OBSERVED ; 2. Thinking Creatively about Careers: The Use of Metaphor ; 3. Paths to Creativity for Knowledge-Intensive Workers ; 4. Chalk Lines, Open Borders, Glass Walls, and Frontiers: Careers and Creativity ; 5. Designing Creative Careers and Creative Lives through Reduced-Load Work Arrangements ; PART II: CREATIVE CAREERS ENACTED ; 6. CareerCraft: Engaging with, Energizing, and Empowering Career Creativity ; 7. Creativity in Contract Workers' Careers ; 8. Career Resilience and the Mastery of Career Adversity ; 9. Career Creativity as Protean Identity ; PART III: CAREERS IN CREATIVE INDUSTRIES ; 10. Symbiotic Careers in Movie Making: Pedro and Agustin Almodovar ; 11. Signaling Expertise: How Signals Shape Careers in Creative Industries ; 12. Boundaryless Careers in Entertainment: Executive Women's Experiences ; PART IV: CAREERS CREATING INDUSTRIES ; 13. How Chaotic Careers Create Orderly Fields ; 14. Careers Creating Industries: Some Early Evidence from the Biotechnology Industry ; 15. Career Creativity to Industry Influence: A Bluepring for the Knowledge Economy? ; 16. Staying Creative about Careers