CIC 2020-2021

5th Creative Industries Conference, Online

February 25 & 26, 2021

Convenors:

Gino Cattani (NYU Stern School of Business), Simone Ferriani (Alma Mater Università di Bologna), Santi Furnari (Bayes Business School)

Convening Partners:

Society for the Advancement of Management Studies


Program and speakers

Day 1

CREATIVE PRACTITIONERS KEYNOTE:
  • “New engines of hope after the American dream: finding recognition in the new Gilded Age” by Prof. Michèle Lamont
Session I: Relational approaches to the music industry (Chair: Filippo Carlo Wezel)
  • Giacomo Negro (Emory University): “Bustin’ out: the evolution of novelty and diversity in recorded music” with Balázs Kovács and Glenn R. Carroll
  • Stoyan Sgourev (ESSEC Business School): “How black is black metal? Color as a relational identity” with Erik Aadland, Giovanni Formilan
Session II: Institutional and field-level approaches to the creative industries(ChaiR: Marianna Rolbina)
  • Eva Boxenbaum, (CBS): “The public library as a place of social inclusion: verbal and visual approaches of the New York Public Library” with Renate Meyer, Silviya Svejenova
  • Candace Jones (University of Edinburgh Business School): “Brokering for a global presence in a creative field”
  • Julien Jourdan (HEC Paris): “Singing a different tune: distinction dynamics among film critics” with Cleo Silvestri and Markus Perkmann
Session III: entrepreneurial dynamics in the creative industries (Chair: Aneesh Banerjee)
  • Eliana Crosina (Babson College): “The becoming of creatives: from a family to a family business”
  • Marianna Rolbina (Bayes Business School): “Paths to innovation in immersive creative SMEs”
  • Joris Ebbers (LUISS Guido Carli): “Career motivations, norms, and intentions to use crowdfunding in creative industries” with Yvette Woltman
Day 2
CREATIVE PRACTITIONERS KEYNOTE:
  • “The rock band (the largest on earth)” by Prof. Paul DiMaggio
  • “Collaborative circles at the center of a field: the case of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood” by Prof. Michael Farrell
Session IV: Competitive dynamics in the creative industries
(Chair: Candace Jones)
  • Sophie Cho (Columbia Business School): “The effects of competitive differentiation on critical versus popular success in music” with Michael Mauskapf
  • Allègre L. Hadida (Judge Business School, Cambridge): “Can the hollywood studios survive the streaming services challenge?” with Joseph Lampel, W. David Walls, Amit Joshi
Session V:
Novelty and artists’ success (Chair: Tal Simmons)
  • Khwan Kim (INSEAD): “The further you go, the more you will shine? How foreign experiences drive creative success in the art” with Frédéric Godart
  • Abhishek Deshmane (IESE Business School): “Come together, right now: an empirical study of collaborations in the music industry” with Victor Martínez de Albéniz