CIC 2016

1st Creative Industries Conference, Edinburgh

July 12 & 13, 2016

Convenors:

University of Edinburgh Business School; Imperial College London; Bayes Business School


Program and speakers

Day 1

INTRODUCTIONS
  • Candace Jones, Chair of Global Creative Enterprise, University of Edinburgh Business School.
  • Ian Clarke, Dean of the Business School & Chair in Strategy, University of Edinburgh Business School.
Session I: Institutional Dynamics
  • Santi Furnari (Bayes Business School): “An institutional field approach to digital creative ecosystems: opportunities and prospects”
  • Laerke Christiansen (DTU Orbit): “Architecture as an institutional resource: a multi-dimensional approach” with Svenenova, Silviya
  • Nelson Phillips (University of Californa Santa Barbara): “Creating new cultural institutions: cultural entrepreneurship and the development of theatre in Turkey” with Kaya, Cidgem
Session II: Category Dynamics
  • Amandine Ody-Brasier (McGill University): “Not the usual suspects: default expectations and contested behaviors in the Champagne industry”
  • Stoyan Sgourev (ESSEC Business School): “Strange bedfellows: art and finance or the monet-ization of art”
  • Olav Velthius (University of Amsterdam): “Drawing boundaries in a globalizing art world. why place-based framing prevails in exhibitions of contemporary art from brazil, russia, india, and china”
Session III: Music Industry Dynamics
  • Sonia Comans: “Ambiguity aand the longevity of creative industries: the case of swing through the lens of interdisciplinary collaboration” with Phillips, Damon
  • Michael Mauskapf (Columbia Business School): “What makes popular culture popular? Cultural networks and optimal differentiation in music”
  • Simone Santoni (Bayes Business School): “The king is dead, long live the king! Superstar extinction and allocation of symbolic resources in the music industry 1959-2014” with Gino Cattani and Simone Ferriani
Session IV: Strategy and Media
  • Joe Lampel (Manchester Business School): “Products re-release and resource visibility in the market for video games”
  • Marianna Rolbina (Bayes Business School): “The role of replication as strategy for television industry architecture”
  • Jonathan Sapsed (Newcastle University Business School): “Creative-Digital-IT business models from the business end”
Session V: Artists and Cultural Production
  • Doris Eikhof (University of Glasgow): “Making the case for art: how arts organizations present cultural production”
  • Charlotte Gilmore (University of Edinburgh): “A spiritual home for creativity: the case of an artist-led collective. ”
Session VI: Leadership and Identity
  • Tammar Sagiv (Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University): “Identity on the move: the interplay among the creative product, the leader, and the Company in the dynamics of identity works” with Tal Simons
  • Susan Murphy (Harvard University): “Leadership lessons from creative Industries: the case of producers, directors, and executives in film and television.”
Keynote: Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Day 2
Keynote John Mathers, UK Design Council
Session VII: Dynamics of Advertising and Design
  • Bruce Tether (Manchester Business School): “The emergence of Service Design (Consulting): how a new category bridging art and commerce sought legitimacy”
  • Sharon Koppman (Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine): “The gender of genius: explaining occupational sex segregation in creative industries”
Session VIII: Artistic Voices and Artifacts
  • Smita Kheria (Edinburgh Law School): “Copyright and creators’ livelihoods: voices from the field”
  • Ed Hollis (Edinburgh College of Art): “Creating ruins: a case study in architecture degeneration”
Session IX: Identity, Aesthetics, and Style
  • Candace Jones (University of Edinburgh Business School): “Building meaning: city identity and the built environment” with Ju Young Lee
  • Micki Eisenman (Hebrew University Business School): “Why bother with workspace design? rethinking effective organizational aesthetic communication” with Michel Frenkle.
  • Frederic Godart (INSEAD): “Why is style not in fashion? Using the concept of “style” to understand the creative industries”
Session X: Selection and Recognition Systems
  • Noah Askin (Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine): “The continued search for authenticity in an increasingly commoditized world of music” with Joeri Mol
  • Joris Ebbers (LUISS Guido Carli): “Aspiration heterogeneity of nascent entrepreneurs: Social networks, peer influence and selection system orientation.”
  • Eric Aadland (BI Norwegian Business School): “The social structure of recognition: the interplay between status and interpersonal relationships in peer audience evaluations” with Gino Cattani and Simone
Session XI: Ph.D. Session Status, Legitimacy, DistinctivenesS
  • Kangsan Lee (NYU Abu Dhabi): “Status devices and status mobility between markets: how does success cross boundaries between local and global markets?”
  • Monika Kackovic (University of Amsterdam): “Crossing the threshold & exiting nascency: Antecedents to gaining full -fledged legitimacy”
  • Richard Haans (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam): “How optimal is distinctiveness? Field-level identity heterogeneity and a shape-flip of the optimal distinctiveness relationship”
Session XII: Disruption, Discord, and Collaboration
  • Sara Lara Marquez-Gallardo (Bayes Business School): “Institutional fields in flux: the dialectics of a technolgical disruption”
  • Brian Kavanagh (King’s College London): “Discord in the ‘museum of music’: Identity struggle at the Seattle Symphony following declines in the classical music field”
  • Pamela Villamar (University of Edinburgh Business School): “Exploring collaborative relationships in creative entrepreneurial contexts”
  • Marta Bernal (University of Edinburgh Business School): “When creativity is the goal. Conceptual Framework for the study of selection practices in cultural industries”