Frontiers of Creative Industries: Exploring Structural and Categorical Dynamics Vol: 55

Candace Jones
University of Edinburgh Business School, UK

Massimo Maoret
IESE Business School, USA


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Hardback
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9781787437746
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Emerald Publishing Limited
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304 pages - 152 x 229mm
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Research in the Sociology of Organizations
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Creative industries are a growing and globallyimportant area for both economic vitality and cultural expression ofindustrialized nations.  The growth anddynamism of creative industries depends on “continuous innovation” that mustmanage inherent tensions such as novelty to attract consumers and sustainartistic expression and familiarity to aid comprehension and stabilize demandfor cultural products.  

In this volume, the macro-structuralconditions that shape creative industries – their institutional, categoricaland structural dynamics- are examined to provide an overview of new trends andemerging issues in scholarship on this topic.  Creative industries offer products andservices that range from the prosaic to the sublime and provide meaning to ourlives, and this volume features a wide range of examples, from advertising, toarchitecture, art markets, Champagne wine, fashion and music.  Contributors examine topics such as the micro-interactionsof brokerage relations; how actors transform a brokerage role from control toco-production to enact creative leadership; how investors provide legitimacy tothe new categories such as abstract art; how technological disintermediationcreates alternative category processes such as authenticity; how socialrelations shape social evaluation; how prototypical producers can trespasscategories and avert negative evaluation; how personal styles enable socialevaluation; and how the ambiguity of a category, such as Swing music,facilitated its adaptability and longevity. The volume concludes with an Afterword examining research on creativeindustries as a form of cultural product and a category in itself.  

Introduction; Candace Jones and Massimo Maoret 
1. Brokerage Styles and Interaction Rituals in Creative Projects: Towards an Interactionist Perspective on Brokerage; Santi Furnari and Marianna Rolbina 
2. Creative Leadership for Social Innovation; Silviya Svejenova and Lærke Christiansen  
3. Strange Bedfellows: Art and Finance or the Monet-ization of Art; Stoyan Sgourev 
4. Why is style not in fashion? Using the concept of "style" to understand the creative industries; Frédéric Godart  
5. The Social Structure of Consecration in Cultural Fields: The Influence of Status, Social Distance and Positive Ties in Audience-Candidate Evaluative Processes; Erik Aadland, Gino Cattani and Simone Ferriani  
6. Institutionalizing Authenticity in the Digitized World of Music; Noah Askin and Joeri Mol  
7. Ambiguity and the Longevity of Creative Industries: The Case of Swing through the Lens of Interdisciplinary Collaboration; Sonia Coman-Ernstoff and Damon Phillips  
8. Not the usual suspects: Default expectations and the strategic use of categories; Amandine Ody-Brazier 
Afterword: The Creative Industries - Arts and Materiality Redux; Paul Hirsch and Kartikeya Bajpai
Candace Jones is the Chair of Global CreativeEnterprise at the University of Edinburgh Business School, UK. She is co-editorof The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries and is on the EditorialReview Boards of Academy of ManagementReview, Journal of Professions and Organization, Organization Science and Organization Studies.
Massimo Maoret is AssistantProfessor at IESE Business School, USA, and a Marie Curie Fellow of theEuropean Commission. His work has appeared in multiple prestigious academicjournals, including OrganizationScience, the StrategicManagement Journal, Advances inStrategic Management and the Proceedings of the Academy of Management.

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