“…The existing literature proposed that in the field of management, the study of diversity would be all about leadership (DiTomaso & Hooijberg, 1996), and the creativity research should pay strong attention to leadership (Shin & Zhou, 2007;Yoshida, Sendjaya, Hirst, & Cooper, 2014). This focus indicates that leadership should be significantly related to the creative outcomes of inter-organizational teams because of the diversity of team members (Lee, Lee, & Seo, 2011;Robert, 2013). Among the various types of leadership, shared leadership is particularly new and important as this leadership conforms to the trend of enhancing empowerment and autonomy within inter-organizational teams (Thorpe, Gold, & Lawler, 2011).…”