of creative industries--including music, movies, fashion, and food--has historically been undertaken by cultural sociologists, and thus remained
OMT Cafe/OMT Drinks: An OT Perspective on Creative Industries and Cultural Markets
Organizers:
Michael Mauskapf, Columbia Business School
Frédéric Godart, INSEAD
Patrick Reilly, UCLA
When: Saturday, 4:30-6 pm
Where: Georgia Beer Garden (420 Edgewood Ave SE)
The study of creative industries--including music, movies, fashion, and food--has historically been undertaken by cultural sociologists, and thus remained outside the scope of mainstream management research. Economist Richard Caves has argued that creative domains such as the arts are often considered less serious and consequential than, say, financial services. Moreover, we have lacked large-scale datasets to study these phenomena, making replicable empirical research difficult to publish. This, however, is beginning to change: a growing number of OT scholars in Europe and the US are now conducting research on creative industries and cultural markets (i.e., Jones, Lorenzen, and Sapsed 2015), a trend that has been buoyed by an abundance of new tools and specialized datasets, resulting in a creative industries "turn" in organizational theory. This OMT Cafe serves as a forum for people interested in studying this fascinating and diverse sector. We hope to motivate why OMT is ideally situated to shed new light on the creative industries, and grow a community of scholars committed to sharing ideas, methodologies, and tips about how to conduct and publish research in this area.