Principles of design leadership for industrial design teams in Taiwan

Although team leadership and its relationship with creative performance has attracted significant attention recently from academia and practicing managers, its implications on the creativity of industrial design teams have not been explored systematically. To avoid unfounded generalisations, this paper is aimed at identifying the main factors which may influence creative enhancement specifically in the context of industrial design leadership in Taiwan, a research tool suitable for this, and for similar investigations under different cultural conditions, is presented.