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Creative Leadership for Social Impact

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Silviya Svejenova at Copenhagen Business School
Silviya Svejenova
Lærke Højgaard Christiansen at Technical University of Denmark
Lærke Højgaard Christiansen
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This study explores how creative leadership unfolds in the pursuit of social purpose. Drawing on the case of an architectural firm’s development of a new social housing model, we identify claims of three creative leadership processes and of scaling up for social impact. The study expands the conceptualization of creative leadership to the context of social change. It also adds to the understanding of creative industries by suggesting social purpose as a distinctive, yet underexplored driver of innovation and a source of different balancing act, as well as an important frontier for research on and practice in the creative industries.
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