Organizing Events for Configuring and Maintaining Creative Fields
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Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries. ed. / Candace Jones; Mark Lorenzen; Jonathan Sapsed. Oxford University Press, 2012. p. 284-300.
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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 -