CIC 2022 – NYC

7th Creative Industries Conference, New York City

October 20 & 22, 2022

Convenors:

Michael Mauskapf (Columbia Business School, New York) and Massimo Maoret (IESE Business School, Barcelona)

Convening Partners:

University of Edinburgh Business School (Candace Jones and Giovanni Formilan), INSEAD (Frédéric Godart), Yale School of Management (Balázs Kovács)


Program and speakers

Day 1

Session I: Inequality in Creative Industries (Chair: Frédéric Godart)
  • Aruna Ranganathan (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley): “Girl uninterrupted: asynchronous teamwork and gender differences in performance” with Aayan Das
  • Gillian Gualtieri (Barnard College): “Fake it when you make it: authenticity, strategies and ethnoracial inequality in american fine dining”
  • Timothy Dowd (Emory College): “She still works hard for the money: composers, precarious work, and the gender pay gap” with Ju Hyun Park
Session II: Technology and Creative Work (Chair: Giovanni Formilan)
  • Santi Furnari (Bayes Business School): “Custodianship across generations: preserving vinyl record manufacturing during a period of transition” with Rene Wiedner and Tina Dacin
  • Enrico Forti (Manhattan College): “Competitive familiarity: learning to coordinate by competing” with Kenny Ching and Evan Rawley
  • Ashley Mears (Boston University): “Making cringe content: the performativity of algorithms in creative labor”
Session III: Cultural Production in Politics, Organizations, and
Markets (Chair: Balázs Kovács)
  • Clayton Childress (University of Toronto): “The polarization of popular culture: tracing the size, shape, and depth of the oil spill” with Craig Rawlings
  • Pilar Opazo (Boston College): “Hungry minds: building a curious organization to sustain creative work” with Barbara Slavich and Ignasi Capdevila
  • Tania Aparicio (Teachers College-Columbia University): “In the backstage: organizational models and the collective production of film curatorship in MoMA and Cineteca Nacional”
  • James Riley (Harvard Business School): “Here be dragons: how art market platforms encode status into their marketplaces’ wayfinding tools”
Day 2
Session IV: Creative Careers
(Chair: Candace Jones)
  • Pat Reilly (Sauder School of Business, UBC): “Creating yourself together: the construction of the commodifiable self in stand-up comedy”
  • Kim Claes (SKK Graduate School of Business): “Gatekeepers as devices of talent retention and departure: the case of vogue and the global high-end fashion industry” with Aleksios Gotsopoulos
  • Yonghoon Lee (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology): “Identity, networks, and the road to a successful career for creative freelancers”
  • Rachel Skaggs (Ohio State University): “Risks and benefits of collective attribution in country music songwriting”
Roundtable:
The Past, Present, and Futures of Creative Industries Research
  • Candace Jones (University of Edinburgh Business School)
  • David Stark (Columbia University)
  • Mukti Khaire (Cornell University)
  • Paul DiMaggio (New York University)
  • Paul Hirsch (Northwestern Kellog School of Management)
  • Jennifer Lena (Columbia University; moderator)

PHD POSTERS PRESENTATIONS
Abhishek Deshmane
(IESE)
Designing Layouts for Sequential
Experiences: Application to Cultural
Institutions (with Ali Aouad and Victor
Martinez-de-Albeniz)
Abraham Oshotse
(Stanford)
Strategic Differentiation in Cultural Markets:
The Benefits of Conspicuous Category
Spanning
C. Blaine Horton
(Columbia)
Creative Value in the Age of AI-Made Art
(with Mike White and Sheena Iyengar)
Daphne Baldassari
(Toronto)
Diverse Representation, Evaluation, and
Hiring: Assessing Organizational Responses
to an Evaluator’s Architectural Intervention
Elif Birced
(Boston University)
Rethinking Creative Autonomy in the Age of
Platforms
Jenna Song
(Columbia)
Influencer Relational Work and Audience
Evaluations: The Role of Perceived Trust
Khwan Kim
(INSEAD)
Routine Disruption and Search for Novelty:
The Case of Music Streaming Users
(with Noah Askin and James Evans)
Taylor Price
(Toronto)
Two Studies on the Social Genesis of Songs:
Cognitive and Interactional Pathways of the
Creative Process
Yoojin Lee
(McGill)
From Movements to Categories: The
Transformation of Quebec Culinary Identity