CIC 2019

4th Creative Industries Conference, Paris

June 21 & 22, 2019

Convenors:

Frédéric Godart (HEC Paris), Barbara Slavich (IESEG School of Management), Noah Askin (INSEAD), Stoyan Sgourev (ESSEC Business School)

Partners:

University of Edinburgh Business School; Edinburgh Futures Institute


Program and speakers

Day 1

Session I: Creativity and Collaboration
  • Mitali Banerjee (HEC Paris): “Cliques or cosmopolitans? relational features of modern artists’ fame”
  • Isabella Pozzo (University of Amsterdam): “Creative couplings or dual-role soloists? Igniting creativity to drive the success of fashion brands” with Paola Cillo, Frédéric Godart
  • Noah Askin (Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine): “The early success trap: group creativity, ambition, and the grammy for best new artist” with Spencer Harrison, Lydia Hagvedt
Session II: Creative Labor and Careers
  • Jennifer C. Lena (Columbia University): “Designing work”
  • Kelly Patterson (Brigham Young University): “Career dynamics in project-based industries: moving up the ladder in the us television labor market” with Léonie Hénaut
  • Gino Cattani (NYU Stern School of Business): “Erraticism and stability in early-career creative production. a sequence analytic study in underground electronic music”
  • Xu Li (CBS): “Costly signals: the labor market outcomes of aspiring DJs” with Amandine Ody-Brasier
Session III: STATUS AND CREATIVITY
  • Julien Jourdan (HEC Paris): “Singing a different tune: distinction dynamics among film critics”
  • James W Riley (Harvard Business School): “A bazaar affair: social costs and collective status displays in the market for contemporary”
  • Maria Laura Frigotto (University of Trento): “The introduction and reception of new public management in the italian opera field: geographical embeddedness, institutional change, and its field status structuring” with Xavier Castañer
  • Simone Santoni (Bayes Business School): “When narratives trump social structures: early stage popularity of craft beers” with Simone Ferriani, David Stark, Matteo Devigili
Guest speaker: Marie-Claire Daveu, Chief Sustainability Officer at Kering
Day 2
Session IV: Craft and Creativity
  • Noa Berger (EHESS): “The craft of coffee: is the specialty coffee market transforming the coffee industry into a creative one?”
  • Laura Dupin (University of Amsterdam): “Are we all artisans? competing craft ontologies and producers’ location choice” with Filippo Carlo Wezel
  • Pilar Opazo (Carrol School of Management, Boston): “A canon of one’s own: a comparative analysis of the cultural production of Ferran Adrià (gastronomy) and Murakami Takashi (visual arts)” with Sonia Coman
Session V: Creative Innovations
  • Micki Eisenman (Hebrew University Business School): “A rising ride lifts all boats: the origins of institutionalized aesthetic innovation” with Tal Simons
  • Candace Jones (University of Edinburgh Business School): “Ugly duckling no more: materiality and aesthetic legitimacy in innovation and evaluation”
  • Martina Montauti (University of St.Gallen): “The Old Master’s comeback: a market-identity perspective on returns from specialization” with Filippo Carlo Wezel
  • Grégoire Croidieu (EM Lyon Business School): “From Crû to Classé: how the veneration of the 1855 Bordeaux wine classification led to the reinvention of the Bordeaux wine tradition” with Walter W. Powell
Session VI: ICreative Fields
  • Christophe Spaenjers (HEC Paris): “Machines and masterpieces: predicting prices in the art auction market”
  • Joris Ebbers (LUISS Guido Carli): “The benefits of membership programs for museums beyond fees: from cross-buying to new member recruitment” with Mark A.A.M. Leenders, Jonathan J. E. Augustijn
  • Charles Kirschbaum (INSPER): “Consecration at the margins: how firms mobilize rhetorical strategies at the fashion industry in Brazil” with Gabriela Antibas, Fabio Ayres, Frédéric Godart
  • Raissa Pershina (University of Oslo): “Overcoming stigma: the case of coin-op videogames” with Santi Furnari