TY - CHAP

T1 - Organizing Events for Configuring and Maintaining Creative Fields

AU - Schüßler, Elke

AU - Sydow, Jörg

PY - 2012/12/16

Y1 - 2012/12/16

N2 - Events such as conferences, trade fairs, festivals, award ceremonies, and related phenomena are becoming an increasingly prominent research topic in the social sciences. Sometimes classified as field-configuring events, tournament rituals, or temporary clusters, such intentionally organized temporary social arenas in which diverse members of an industry or organizational field assemble, often periodically, have recently been recognized as important selection environments and sites for the negotiation of values in creative industries. By drawing on theoretical concepts from management studies, organizational sociology, and economic geography, this chapter provides a review of the existing research on what we denote as ‘organized field-level events’ and proposes three theoretical perspectives: organized field-level events as creative products, events as mechanisms of configuring and maintaining creative fields, and organizing field-level events as a form of institutional work.

AB - Events such as conferences, trade fairs, festivals, award ceremonies, and related phenomena are becoming an increasingly prominent research topic in the social sciences. Sometimes classified as field-configuring events, tournament rituals, or temporary clusters, such intentionally organized temporary social arenas in which diverse members of an industry or organizational field assemble, often periodically, have recently been recognized as important selection environments and sites for the negotiation of values in creative industries. By drawing on theoretical concepts from management studies, organizational sociology, and economic geography, this chapter provides a review of the existing research on what we denote as ‘organized field-level events’ and proposes three theoretical perspectives: organized field-level events as creative products, events as mechanisms of configuring and maintaining creative fields, and organizing field-level events as a form of institutional work.

KW - Management studies

KW - Creative industries

KW - organizational fields

KW - field-configuring events

KW - conferences

KW - festivals

KW - trade fairs

KW - tournament rituals

KW - valuation

KW - selection environments

KW - field maintenance

KW - institutional work

KW - Creative fields

KW - field-configuring events

KW - field-maintaining events

KW - conferences

KW - festivals

KW - trade fairs

KW - tournament rituals

KW - temporary clusters

KW - creative production

KW - institutional work

U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199603510.013.029

DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199603510.013.029

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9780199603510

SP - 284

EP - 300

BT - Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries

A2 - Jones, Candace

A2 - Lorenzen, Mark

A2 - Sapsed, Jonathan

PB - Oxford University Press

ER -