Management Decision: Volume 53 Issue 4

Theorising creative industry management: rebooting the woolly mammoth

David Pick, Paull Weber, Julia Connell, Louis Andre Geneste

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the paradox inherent in the term “Creative Industry Management”. The challenges of applying creative industry experiences within a…

Shocks among managers of indigenous art centres in remote Australia

Pi-Shen Seet, Janice Jones, Tim Acker, Michelle Whittle

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons managers of non-Indigenous backgrounds move to, stay in, and leave their positions in Indigenous Art Centres in remote…

Exploring boundary-spanning practices among creativity managers

Poul Houman Andersen, Hanne Kragh

External inputs are critical for organisational creativity. In order to bridge different thought worlds and cross-organisational barriers, managers must initiate and motivate…

Managing exploration and exploitation paradoxes in creative organisations

Eric Knight, Will Harvey

The purpose of this paper is to address the paradox that individuals face in seeking to both generate new ideas and be committed to delivering standardised processes in a creative…

The creative industries: an entrepreneurial bricolage perspective

Saskia de Klerk

The idea of “creating something from nothing” resonates strongly with the creation process associated with artists. The Levi-Strauss and Baker and Nelson discussions also refer to…

Situating creative production: recording studios and the making of a pop song

Jonathan Michael Gander

This paper explores the spatial and material context of a creative production project. Taking the music recording project as an empirical setting, it explores the creation of a…

Reducing creative labour precarity: beyond network connections

Benjamin Stuart Rodney Farr-Wharton, Kerry Brown, Robyn Keast, Yuliya Shymko

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of organisational business acumen and social network structure on the earnings and labour precarity experienced by creative…

Challenges of older self-employed workers in creative industries: The case of the Netherlands

Sophie Hennekam

The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges of older self-employed workers in the creative industries and ways of dealing with these challenges. This is important in…