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The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Provides a broad and comprehensive scope, and is not limited to the creative industries
  • Critically engages with topics from a wide variety of perspectives including professionalisation, regulation, gender, power, digitalisation and globalisation
  • Includes contributions from international authors from the UK, Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. Working with Creativity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Measuring Creativity at Work

      • Xavier Caroff, Justine Massu, Todd Lubart
      Pages 3-22
    3. Creativity in the Context of Multiple Goals

      • Kerrie Unsworth
      Pages 23-41
    4. Mysteries of Creative Process: Explorations at Work and in Daily Life

      • Terri Goslin-Jones, Ruth Richards
      Pages 71-106
  3. Putting Creativity to Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
    2. Creativity and the Web of Life

      • Jonathan Milne
      Pages 145-167
    3. Creativity and the Visual Arts

      • Peter Adsett, Mary Alice Lee
      Pages 169-186
    4. Enhancing Creativity Through Workspace Design

      • Louise Suckley, John Nicholson
      Pages 245-263
    5. Creativity: Transformation of Adversity

      • Alia Weston, J. Miguel Imas
      Pages 287-307
  4. Working in the Creative Economy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-309
    2. “Hopeful Work” and the Creative Economy

      • David Wright
      Pages 311-325

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Lee Martin

  • Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries (CMCI), King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

    Nick Wilson

About the editors

Lee Martin is Associate Professor of Creativity in the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK. His research critically explores the nature of creativity and the creative process, as well as understanding how to develop sustainable creative practices and cultures. 

Nick Wilson is Reader in Creativity, Arts & Cultural Management at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London, where he founded the MA in Arts & Cultural Management. His research focuses on cultural opportunities: what are they, who has them, and how can they be supported and enabled for human flourishing? 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work

  • Editors: Lee Martin, Nick Wilson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77350-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77349-0Published: 07 August 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08434-9Published: 26 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77350-6Published: 20 July 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 658

  • Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Organization

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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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Hardcover Book USD 279.99
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