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.

Part I. Working with Creativity.- 1. Creativity at Work: Themes, Issues and Challenges; Lee Martin.- Measuring Creativity at Work; Xavier Caroff, Justine Massu, Todd Lubart.- 3. Creativity in the Context of Multiple Goals; Kerrie Unsworth.- 4. An Exploration of the Tension between Tradition and Innovation; Simon Poole.- 5. Mysteries of Creative Process: Explorations at Work and in Daily Life; Terri Goslin-Jones, Ruth Richards.- 6. “Yeah, that’s what I am now”: Affordances, Action and Creative Identity; Mary Kay Culpepper.- 7. “Dropping out and working”: The vocational Narratives of Creative Graduates; Scott Brook, Roberta Comunian.- Part II. Putting Creativity to Work.- 8. Creativity and the Web of Life; Jonathan Milne.- 9. Creativity and the Visual Arts; Peter Adsett, Mary Alice Lee.- 10. Social-Creativity-in-Practice: The theory is the Practice; Alice Wilson Milne.- 11. Exploring Creative Research Methodologies in the Humanities; Toby Young.-12. Sharing or Integration: Rethinking the Localization of Co-working Spaces in Shanghai; Weiyi Wu.- 13. Enhancing Creativity through Workspace Design; Louise Suckley, John Nicholson.- 14. The Darkness In Janusian Thinking: Considering the Relationship between Creativity in the Workplace and Employee Well-being; Michael Mustafa, Hazel Melanie Ramos.- 15. Creativity: Transformation of Adversity; Alia Weston and J. Miguel Imas.- Part III. Working in the Creative Economy.- 16. “Hopeful Work” and the Creative Economy; David Wright.- 17. Creativity as Development: Discourse, Ideology and Practice; Jonathan Vickery.- 18. Women Entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia: Creative Responses to Gendered Opportunities; Deema Sonbol.- 19. The Meta-Poetics of Creative Labour in the University; Penny Newell.- 20. Creativity and the Law; Tanya Aplin.- 21. Entrepreneurship and Creativity Education in China: Reflections from an Experience-based Approach to an Introductory Module in Entrepreneurship; Tori Y. Huang, Felix Arndt.- 22. “Essential–Passion for Music”: Affirming, Critiquing and Practicing Passionate Work in Creative Industries; Toby Bennett.- 23. Entrepreneurship in Music and the Goldilocks Principle: “Highway to Hell” or “Together Forever”?; Nick Wilson.- Part IV: Making Creativity Work.- 24. Valuable Creativity: Rediscovering Purpose; Chris Bilton.- 25. Creativity Off the Clock: Re-conceptualizing Creative Careers; Jonathan Gross.- 26. Embedding an Everyday Culture of Creativity: Making Creativity Work in a University Context; Laura Speers, Nick Wilson.- 27. Social Media and the Future of Creativity at Work; Chris James Carter.- 28. 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.- 29. Disruption on the Dancefloor: Understanding Creativity as Openness and Emergence; Brigid McClure.- 30. Making Creativity Work: Marking Out New Territories; Birgit Wildt.- 31. Creativity at Work - Who Cares? Towards an Ethics of Creativity as a Structured Practice of Care; Nick Wilson.

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.

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