Leadership and Creativity

This study empirically extends the understanding of entrepreneurial leadership as a specific leadership style. Based on the compatibility principle, we examine relations between entrepreneurial leadership and individual and team creativity in organizations as well as individual and team creative efficacy beliefs. The results highlight that entrepreneurial leadership plays a critical role in facilitating employee and team creativity in terms of displaying creativity-favouring behaviours that specifically fit workplace creative endeavours. Moreover, drawing on SCT, this study adds to the growing body of evidence that is used to argue that creative efficacy beliefs serve as an underlying mechanism that exerts within-level and cross-level influences in the entrepreneurial leadership-creativity relation. These findings will be useful to practitioners in developing entrepreneurial leadership styles and managing workplace creativity in changing environments.