Abstract
The development of new ventures is often based on collective creative efforts. We conceptualize team creativity as a process of looking for and exploring new solutions and examine whether and how CEO leadership fosters creativity in top management teams (TMT). Data collected from senior executive teams indicate that CEO ideational facilitation leadership is positively related to team knowledge sharing, which in turn results in enhanced team exploratory behaviors. These findings bear important theoretical implications for ways in which leaders can enhance creativity in teams and augment the entrepreneurial direction of executive teams.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 53-75 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Journal of Creative Behavior |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Mar 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2014 by the Creative Education Foundation, Inc.
Keywords
- CEO ideational facilitation leadership behaviors
- exploratory behaviors
- knowledge sharing
- team management team creativity