2nd Creative Industries Conference, New York City
August 1 & 2, 2017
Convenors:
Gino Cattani, Damon Phillips, and Amandine Ody-Brasier
Partners:
INSEAD; University of Edibburgh Business School; Yale School of Management
Program and speakers
Day 1
Session I: Power and Competition in Creative Industries
- Candace Jones (University of Edinburgh Business School): “Competitors or complements? Architects and engineer professionals creating new markets” with Taehyun Lee
- Daniel B. Sands (UCL School of Management): “Markets, prices, and isomorphism: pricing activity within the New York City restaurant industry” with Gino Cattani, Jason Greenberg, and Joseph Porac
- Barbara Slavich (SDA Bocconi): “Power in and of collaborations in creative industries” with Damon J. Phillips, and Silviya Svejenova Velikova
Session II: Networks and Social Movements
- Michael Mauskapf (Columbia Business School): “Embeddedness and the production of novelty in music: a multidimensional perspective” with Eric Quintane, Noah Askin, and Joeri Mol
- Frederic Godart (INSEAD): “Anti-fur activism and the use of fur in the global fashion industry, 2000-2010” Greta Hsu, and Giacomo Negro
- Simone Ferriani (University of Bologna): “Standing out to become outstanding: Attention networks and popularity trajectories in electronic music” with Simone Santoni, and David Stark
Session III: Television, Film and Theatre
- Joris Ebbers (LUISS Guido Carli): “From domestic to international film success: the mediating role of festival performance, and the mediating role of arthouse mainstream congruence between films and festivals” with Carlijin Tolman, Francesca Vicentini, and Paolo Boccardelli
- Santi Furnari (Bayes Business School): “Exploring the digital transformation of creative industries: The case of the television industry” with Gianvito Lanzolla, and Marianna Rolbina
- Shu Han (Syms School of Business, Yeshiva University): “Actor replacement as a pseudo-natural experiment in the value of human capital: Evidence from Broadway shows” with S. Abraham Ravid
Session IV: Interactive Theory Session
- Fabien Accominotti (London School of Economics): “A theory of consecration: Intermediation and the formation of economic value in the market for modern art”
- Joeri Mol (University of Melbourne): “Cosmologies of value: icons, indexes, and symbols in art markets” with Graham Sewell, Miya Tokumitsu, and Gerhard Wiesenfeldt
- Diana Del Monte (Catholic University of Milan): “An exploratory research of three artists and groups”
- Tamar Sagiv (Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University): “Identity on the move: the interplay between product, leader, and company in organizational identity-work” with Tal Simons
Day 2
Session V: Identity Formation and Reputation
- Hannah Wohl (UC Santa Barbara): “Signature styles: the production of distinctiveness”
- Mitali Banerjee (HEC Paris): “Understanding and valuing creativity using expert and computational measure of visual artists’ output”
- Ileana Stigliani (Imperial College Business School): “The role of a new label in the identity formation of an emerging industry and its founding firms: a study of service design” with Kimberly D. Elsbach
| KEYNOTES AND FEATURED GUESTS | |
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| Gary Alan Fine | Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, he received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Harvard University. Throughout his career, he has conducted observational works on artists, aesthetic workers, and the art world. His current research is based on a two-year observation of visual art students at three university-based MFA programs in Chicago, examining how young contemporary artists are trained to think about their practices. |
| Michael Laiskonis | Joined the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) in 2012, fresh from an eight-year tenure as Executive Pastry Chef at Le Bernardin. He has long been one of the industry’s most creative and talented chefs, noted for having helped Le Bernardin earn four stars from The New York Times and three Michelin stars. Laiskonis was also named to America’s Top Ten Pastry Chefs by Pastry Art & Design in 2002 and 2003 and Bon Appétit’s Pastry Chef of the Year in 2004. He has also found great success outside the kitchen as an active writer for publications including Gourmet, Saveur, and The Atlantic. He has appeared on television shows such as Top Chef: Just Desserts. |
| Chris Washburne | Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University and the founder and director of Columbia’s Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. He has published numerous articles on jazz, Latin jazz, and salsa. His newest book, Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York, was published in 2008 by Temple University Press. He co-edited the volume Bad Music (Routledge, 2004) and is working on a Latin jazz book with Oxford University Press. As a trombonist, he has toured extensively with various groups and concertized throughout Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. He has commissioned and premiered over twenty contemporary compositions for trombone and has performed on over 150 recordings. |
| Groupmuse | A platform enabling communities to come together around great art, is an online social network that connects young classical musicians to local audiences through concert house parties. Share the great masterpieces of music with old and new friends — in your living room and throughout your city. The Groupmuse platform brings hundreds of new listeners to classical music every week. |
| Eat Offbeat | Delivers authentic and delicious ethnic meals conceived, prepared, and delivered by refugees in NYC. Eat Offbeat allows refugees to receive training, employment, and a chance to get out of the house—something that’s especially important for those who have been resettled very recently. (Lucy Westcott, Newsweek, 2/19/16) |