*“Journeys of Creative Entrepreneurs: Interaction among individuals,
organizations and institutions in creative industries” Vienna, Austria
July 5-7***
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**A primary destination for Mozart's journeys, and later for his
permanent residency, Vienna is a superb stage for a sub-theme on
creative industries. Convened previously at the EGOS colloquia in
Barcelona, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Berlin and Bergen, our sub-theme has
become a home to a vibrant and growing international community of
scholars seeking to advance the understanding of process and paradoxes
in creative sectors.
Creative industries weave together individual genius and inspiration
with collective efforts and organizational (infra)structures and
resources. Overtime the balance of what roles and rules guide the dance
among collaborators and organizations has changed. For example, in
American film the film studios and central producers played a critical
role during the golden age of Hollywood, which changed with the demise
of the studio system and rise of the director as auteur, who guides the
vision of a film. The relationship between individuals, organizations
and institutions have been sparked by changes in institutional rules
such as the Paramount decree which required vertical disaggregation of
film studios. Our sub-theme seeks explorations of the journeys of
creative entrepreneurs, focusing on the interaction among individuals,
organizations and institutions in creative industries.
For the 2007 EGOS Colloquium in Vienna we seek papers on the following
areas:
(1) How have changes in institutions and institutional rules around
creative products and endeavors, such as intellectual property, creative
roles or national and legal policy, shaped who and how develops and
delivers these creative products? What are the trajectories of
institutional rules and the competitive dynamics in creative industries?
(2) What creative leaders have had a profound impact on their creative
industry? How did they alter practices, rules of collaboration or
understanding of creative products? What strategies did they pursue? How
have these strategies in turn been influenced by institutional logics
and supported by organizational structures?
(3) How does the social embeddedness of creative industries influence
what kinds of creative products are created and how they are created?
How do institutionalized logics, regimes and gatekeepers stifle or
facilitate entrepreneurial initiatives in creative industries? How do
the networks of relationships provide the connectivity needed for novel
ideas to emerge and thrive, as well as for mainstream output to persist?
*/_NB Please submit abstracts (800 words) by 15 January 2007 via the
EGOS website (http://www.egosnet.org).
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Co-convenors:
Candace Jones, /Boston College, Boston, USA/
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jonescq@bc.edu <mailto:
jonescq@bc.edu>/
Silviya Svejenova, /ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain/
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silviya.svejenova@esade.edu <mailto:
silviya.svejenova@esade.edu>/
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Jesper Strandgaard, /Copenhagen// Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark/
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js.ioa@cbs.dk <mailto:
js.ioa@cbs.dk>/
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