Creative industry management : oxymoron or opportunity? / guest editors, Dr. David Pick [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pick, David, editor.

Series:

Management decision ; Volume 53, Number 4.

Management Decision, 0025-1747 ; Volume 53, Number 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability in business.

Business.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Bradford, England] : Emerald, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The overarching intent for this ebook is to showcase research and thinking which highlights the challenges and paradoxes of 'mainstream' management and its applicability (or otherwise) to 'managing' the creative industries.The chapters included in this volume focus on observations that take place within the creative industries using the language and conventions of management research and theory. In practical terms, the intention of the editorial team is to avoid the risk of 'telling' creative managers how to do their job, instead helping to identify where management theory may assist the proce

Contents:

Cover; Editorial advisory board; Guest editorial; Shocks among managers of indigenous art centresin remote Australia; Exploring boundary-spanning practices among creativity managers; Managing exploration and exploitation paradoxes increative organisations; The creative industries:an entrepreneurial bricolage perspective; Situating creative production:recording studios and the making of a pop song; Reducing creative labour precarity: beyond network connections; Challenges of older self-employed workers in creative industries

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed June 23, 2015).

ISBN:

1-78560-307-8

OCLC:

939554698