CIC 2022 – Amsterdam

6th Creative Industries Conference, Amsterdam

May 20 & 22, 2022

Convenors:

Joris Ebbers & Monika Kackovic (The University of Amsterdam) and Richard Haans & Tal Simmons (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Convening Partners:

The University of Edinburgh Future Institute, INSEAD, Yale School of Management


Program and speakers

Day 1

Session I (Chair: Stephanie Koornneef)
  • Anastasia Sergeeva (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University): “The more things change, the more they remain the same: examining the formation and maintenance of organizational character” with Tal Simons
  • Boukje Cnossen (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Artful legitimacy: the role of materiality in practices of legitimation” with Nicolas Bencherki
  • Jochem Kroezen (Judge Business School, Cambridge): “Crafting occupational expertise: the role of collective memory work in the reconfiguration of occupational trajectories” with Judith Nyfeler
Session II (CHAIR Richard Haans)
  • Joobin Ordoobody (Tilburg University): “Creative collaborations: the interplay of agency and structure” with Joris Ebbers
  • Giovanni Formilan (University of Edinburgh Business School): “Legitimizing economic capital in cultural fields: a topic modeling study on funding opportunities to uk musicians”

Keynote: TACO DIbbits (general director of the Rijksmuseum)

Session III (Chair: Joris Ebbers)
  • Balazs Kovacs (Yale School of Management): “The stickiness of category labels: audience perception and evaluation of change in creative markets” with Greta Hsu and Amanda Sharkey
  • Hannah Wohl (UC Santa Barbara): “Orientational work: how brokers facilitate transactions through interaction” with Max Besbris
  • Joost Rietveld (UCL School of Management): “Too close to the sun? Antecedents and implications of being compared to exemplars” with Richard Haans
Session IV (Chair: Monika Kackovic)
  • Angelo Tomaselli (Amsterdam Business School): “Epistemic curiosity in the context of experiential products”
  • Daphne Geveke (Erasmus University Rotterdam): “Fashion activism in the 21st century: A quantitative analysis on the relation between online activism and performance by global fashion brands” with Mariangela Lavanga
  • Joe Ploog (UCL School of Management): “Network effects by choice: a demand-side perspective on performance in the board games industry”

Session V (Chair: Innan Sasaki)
  • Ellen Loots ( Erasmus University Rotterdam): “Collaborative creativity in cross-sector partnerships with artists and designers as change agents” with Walter van Andel
  • Patrick Bergemann (Paul Merage School of Business UC Irvine): “Social structure and the refraction of social control: naming names during the hollywood blacklist” with Giacomo Negro and Brandy Aven
  • Charmi Patel (Henley Business School): “The fabric of faith: how a textile art form overcome a community stigma?” with Candace Jones
Day 2
Session VI (Chair: TAL Simmons)
  • Balazs Szatmari (Amsterdam Business School): “Getting recognized: the incongruence of status and resource commitment signals in the video game industry” with Dirk Deichmann
  • Donato Cutolo (University of Bologna): “Entrepreneurship as persuasion: rhetorical strategies in TED talks” with Simone Ferriani
  • Hang-Jun Cho (INSEAD): “The network structure of cultural toolkits and organizational creativity: robust cultural elements in the face of mobility shocks” with Frederic Godart and Charles Galunic

Keynote: Shahar Livne (award winning conceptual material designer)
  • Emerging design fields: Critical, Speculative, and Discursive

Session III (Chair: Joobin Ordoobody)
  • Khwan Kim (INSEAD): “Feature-based structures of opportunity: innovation in the american popular music industry, 1958-2016” with Noah Askin
  • Thanos Efthymiou (University of Amsterdam): “Being ranked in a material world: the visual originality of an artwork and its effects on artists’ performance” with Stevan Rudinac, Monika Kackovic, Marcel Worring, & Nachoem Wijnberg
  • Mitali Banerjee (HEC Paris): “The golden convergence: how creative producers become more visible by being less differentiated” with Daniel Kaplan