About the Book
Careers are changing-a simple linear development is now rare. People need to be creative about their careers, and society needs to generate creativity from its work arrangements. Many believe that the so-called creative industries (media, high-tech, IT, etc.) offer a model for likely working patterns and career development in the future.In this book leading experts from ten countries look at the dual meaning of Career Creativity to explore
both the creativity in people's career behavior and the concomitant creative development of the institutions of work and society. The book's four sections address the observation of
creative careers, the enactment of careers within the social structure, the shape of careers in what have traditionally been seen as creative industries, and the role that careers play in the creation of industries.The chapters cover a diverse range of issues and perspectives such as knowledge-intensive workers, paths to creativity, the career metaphor, transformation and adversity in creative lives, the pursuit of international assignments, and the consequences of career
mobility. They draw from a number of different employment sectors including high-technology, craft work, film-making, country music, biotechnology, and open-source software.
Table of Contents:
1: N. Anand, Maury Peiperl, and Michael Arthur: Introducing Career Creativity
Part I: Creative Careers Observed
2: Kerr Inkson: Thinking Creatively about Careers: The Use of Metaphor
3: Birgitta Södergren: Paths to Creativity for Knowledge-Intensive Workers
4: Hugh P. Gunz, Martin G. Evans, and R. Michael Jalland: Chalk Lines, Open Borders, Glass Walls, and Frontiers: Careers and Creativity
5: Michelle L. Buck, Mary Dean Lee, and Shelley M. MacDermid: Designing Creative Careers and Creative Lives through Reduced-Load Work Arrangements
Part II: Creative Careers Enacted
6: Gray Poehnell and Norman Amundson: CareerCraft: Engaging with, Energizing, and Empowering Career Creativity
7: Polly Parker: Creativity in Contract Workers' Careers
8: Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld: Career Resilience and the Mastery of Career Adversity
9: Douglas T. Hall, Guorong Zhu, and Aimin Yan: Career Creativity as Protean Identity
Part III: Careers in Creative Industries
10: José Luis Alvarez and Silviya Svejenova: Symbiotic Careers in Movie Making: Pedro and Agustin Almodovar
11: Candace Jones: Signaling Expertise: How Signals Shape Careers in Creative Industries
12: Ellen A. Ensher, Susan E. Murphy, and Sherry E. Sullivan: Boundaryless Careers in Entertainment: Executive Women's Experiences
Part IV: Careers Creating Industries
13: Richard A. Peterson and N. Anand: How Chaotic Careers Create Orderly Fields
14: Monica C. Higgins: Careers Creating Industries: Some Early Evidence from the Biotechnology Industry
15: Robert J. DeFillippi and Michael B. Arthur: Career Creativity to Industry Influence: A Bluepring for the Knowledge Economy?
16: Michael Arthur, Maury Peiperl, and N. Anand: Staying Creative about Careers
About the Author :
Maury A. Peiperl is Associate Dean and Director of the Careers Research Initiative at London Business School. He has taught, written, and consulted for over fifteen years on four continents in the areas of executive careers, human resource management, performance, and change, and sits on the boards of several companies. He is also a director of a consulting firm specializing in performance, change, communications, and careers issues. Michael B. Arthur is Professor
of Management at the Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston. He has written and researched widely on the subject of careers, and his research focuses on alternative ways to link
individual career theory and collective action. N. Anand is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School. Anand's research interests include the constitution and emergence of industrial fields, the organization of the commercial music industry, knowledge management in professional service firms, and behaviour in financial services firms.
Review :
`Whether by choice or by chance, a growing proportion of the population in major countries no longer have job security or career paths within stable organizations. Career Creativity tackles all the latest issues stemming from this major shift: the rise of knowledge workers, the problem of achieving work/life balance, the mixed blessing of being free agents, and the power of those with talent in creative industries. The collective insights of leading
scholars map a new intellectual territory that also has practical implications for organizational and social policy.'
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, best-selling author of Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow
`This book is a fascinating and highly relevant collection . . . that brings career theory and practice into line with the rapidly changing world of work that we are all experiencing.'
Edgar H. Schein, Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management
`Creativity is both cause and effect of successful, effective, and meaningful careers - and even a way of viewing careers. The landscape of careers is changing. We need to think "outside the box" to be ready. This collection . . . explodes the box. Get ready for the future and read this book.'
Richard E. Boyatzis, Professor, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
