The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work

Description

This Handbook provides authoritative up-to-date scholarship and debate concerning creativity at work, and offers a timely opportunity to re-evaluate our understanding of creativity, work, and the pivotal relationship between them. Far from being a new arrival on the scene, the context of work has always been a place shaped and sharpened by creativity, as well as a site that determines, where, when, how, and for whom creativity emerges. Structured in four parts – Working with Creativity (the present); Putting Creativity to Work (in an organizational context); Working in the Creative Industries (creative labour); and Making Creativity Work (the future) – the Handbook is an inspirational learning resource, helping us to work with creativity in innovative ways. Providing a cutting edge, interdisciplinary, diverse, and critical collection of academic and practitioner insights, this Handbook ultimately conveys a message of hope: if we take better care of creativity, our creativity will better care for us. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Measuring Creativity at Work (Xavier Caroff, Justine Massu, Todd Lubart)....Pages 3-22 Creativity in the Context of Multiple Goals (Kerrie Unsworth)....Pages 23-41 An Exploration of the Tension Between Tradition and Innovation (Simon Poole)....Pages 43-70 Mysteries of Creative Process: Explorations at Work and in Daily Life (Terri Goslin-Jones, Ruth Richards)....Pages 71-106 “Yeah, That’s What I Am Now”: Affordances, Action, and Creative Identity (Mary Kay Culpepper)....Pages 107-124 “Dropping Out and Working”: The Vocational Narratives of Creative Graduates (Scott Brook, Roberta Comunian)....Pages 125-141 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 Creativity and the Web of Life (Jonathan Milne)....Pages 145-167 Creativity and the Visual Arts (Peter Adsett, Mary Alice Lee)....Pages 169-186 Social-Creativity-in-Practice: The Theory Is the Practice (Alice Wilson Milne)....Pages 187-202 Exploring Creative Research Methodologies in the Humanities (Toby Young)....Pages 203-222 Sharing or Integration: Rethinking the Localization of Co-working Spaces in Shanghai (Weiyi Wu)....Pages 223-243 Enhancing Creativity Through Workspace Design (Louise Suckley, John Nicholson)....Pages 245-263 The Darkness in Janusian Thinking: Considering the Relationship Between Creativity in the Workplace and Employee Well-Being (Michael Mustafa, Hazel Melanie Ramos)....Pages 265-286 Creativity: Transformation of Adversity (Alia Weston, J. Miguel Imas)....Pages 287-307 Front Matter ....Pages 309-309 “Hopeful Work” and the Creative Economy (David Wright)....Pages 311-325 Creativity as Development: Discourse, Ideology, and Practice (Jonathan Vickery)....Pages 327-359 Women Entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia: Creative Responses to Gendered Opportunities (Deema Sonbol)....Pages 361-384 The Meta-poetics of Creative Labour in the University (Penny Newell)....Pages 385-398 Creativity and the Law (Tanya Aplin)....Pages 399-419 Entrepreneurship and Creativity Education in China: Reflections from an Experience-Based Approach to an Introductory Module in Entrepreneurship (Tori Y. Huang, Felix Arndt)....Pages 421-430 “Essential—Passion for Music”: Affirming, Critiquing, and Practising Passionate Work in Creative Industries (Toby Bennett)....Pages 431-459 Entrepreneurship in Music and the Goldilocks Principle: “Highway to Hell” or “Together Forever”? (Nick Wilson)....Pages 461-480 Front Matter ....Pages 481-481 Valuable Creativity: Rediscovering Purpose (Chris Bilton)....Pages 483-500 Creativity Off the Clock: Re-conceptualizing Creative Careers (Jonathan Gross)....Pages 501-522 Embedding an Everyday Culture of Creativity: Making Creativity Work in a University Context (Laura Speers, Nick Wilson)....Pages 523-542 Social Media and the Future of Creativity at Work (Chris James Carter)....Pages 543-562 Creativity at Work and Sustainable Product Development: Practitioner Perspectives from the Clothing Industry (Helen Goworek, Lynn Oxborrow, Angharad McLaren, Stella Claxton, Tim Cooper, Helen Hill)....Pages 563-582 Disruption on the Dancefloor: Understanding Creativity as Openness and Emergence (Brigid McClure)....Pages 583-604 Making Creativity Work: Marking Out New Territories (Birgit Wildt)....Pages 605-619 Creativity at Work: Who Cares? Towards an Ethics of Creativity as a Structured Practice of Care (Nick Wilson)....Pages 621-647 Back Matter ....Pages 649-658