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.

"Based at universities in Athens, Durham and Tel Aviv, the leading contemporary trio of academic researchers on creative leadership have gathered a state-of-the-field reader. Organized around their great insight that creative leaders variously facilitate, direct and integrate others’ contributions in producing creative work, this collection of 14 articles provides a wealth of valuable insights, both theoretical and practical." - David Slocum, "The Top 10 Creative Leadership Books From 2018," Forbes.com, January 13, 2019

• Part I: Foundations of Creative Leadership1. Introduction: Connecting Creative Leadership’s Strands of ResearchCharalampos Mainemelis, Olga Epitropaki, and Ronit Kark2. On the Relationship Between Creative Leadership and Contextual VariabilityCharalampos Mainemelis3. Unpacking the Socio-cognitive Foundations of Creative Leadership: Bridging Implicit Leadership and Implicit Creativity TheoriesOlga Epitropaki, Jennifer S. Mueller, and Robert G. LordPart II: Creative Leadership in Facilitative Contexts4. Leading Creative Efforts: Common Functions and Common SkillsMichael D. Mumford, Colleen Durban, Yash Gujar, Julia Buck, and E. Michelle Todd5. Leader Behaviors and Employee Creativity: Taking Stock of the Current State of Research Christina E. Shalley and G. James Lemoine6. Empowering Leadership and Team Creativity: The Roles of Team Learning Behavior, Team Creative Efficacy, and Team Task ComplexityXiaomeng Zhang and Ho Kwong Kwan7. 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 LeadershipRobert J. Sternberg9. The Creative Leadership Practices of Haute Cuisine Chefs Isabelle Bouty, Marie-Léandre Gomez, and Marc Stierand10. "It Must Give Birth to a World": Temporality and Creative Leadership for Artistic InnovationSilviya Svejenova Part IV: Creative Leadership in Integrative Contexts 11. Leading for Creative Synthesis: A Process-Based Model for Creative LeadershipSarah Harvey, Chia-yu Kou, and Wenxin Xie12. Brokerage and Creative Leadership: Process, Practice, and PossibilitiesElizabeth Long-Lingo 13. A Curatorial Metaphor for Creative LeadershipRobert Litchfield and Lucy L. Gilson14. Exploring Integrative Creative Leadership in the Filmmaking Industry Nicole Flocco, Filomena Canterino, Stefano Cirella, Jean-Francois Coget, and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani

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.

"Based at universities in Athens, Durham and Tel Aviv, the leading contemporary trio of academic researchers on creative leadership have gathered a state-of-the-field reader. Organized around their great insight that creative leaders variously facilitate, direct and integrate others’ contributions in producing creative work, this collection of 14 articles provides a wealth of valuable insights, both theoretical and practical." - David Slocum, "The Top 10 Creative Leadership Books From 2018," Forbes.com, January 13, 2019

• Part I: Foundations of Creative Leadership1. Introduction: Connecting Creative Leadership’s Strands of ResearchCharalampos Mainemelis, Olga Epitropaki, and Ronit Kark2. On the Relationship Between Creative Leadership and Contextual VariabilityCharalampos Mainemelis3. Unpacking the Socio-cognitive Foundations of Creative Leadership: Bridging Implicit Leadership and Implicit Creativity TheoriesOlga Epitropaki, Jennifer S. Mueller, and Robert G. LordPart II: Creative Leadership in Facilitative Contexts4. Leading Creative Efforts: Common Functions and Common SkillsMichael D. Mumford, Colleen Durban, Yash Gujar, Julia Buck, and E. Michelle Todd5. Leader Behaviors and Employee Creativity: Taking Stock of the Current State of Research Christina E. Shalley and G. James Lemoine6. Empowering Leadership and Team Creativity: The Roles of Team Learning Behavior, Team Creative Efficacy, and Team Task ComplexityXiaomeng Zhang and Ho Kwong Kwan7. 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 LeadershipRobert J. Sternberg9. The Creative Leadership Practices of Haute Cuisine Chefs Isabelle Bouty, Marie-Léandre Gomez, and Marc Stierand10. "It Must Give Birth to a World": Temporality and Creative Leadership for Artistic InnovationSilviya Svejenova Part IV: Creative Leadership in Integrative Contexts 11. Leading for Creative Synthesis: A Process-Based Model for Creative LeadershipSarah Harvey, Chia-yu Kou, and Wenxin Xie12. Brokerage and Creative Leadership: Process, Practice, and PossibilitiesElizabeth Long-Lingo 13. A Curatorial Metaphor for Creative LeadershipRobert Litchfield and Lucy L. Gilson14. Exploring Integrative Creative Leadership in the Filmmaking Industry Nicole Flocco, Filomena Canterino, Stefano Cirella, Jean-Francois Coget, and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani