F Godart
Biographic Data
| ID | 50366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Godart |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Godart |
| SIGNATURE | GODART F |
| AFFILIATIONS | INSEAD |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7530-8577 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 177 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gatekeeping and the Use of Contested Practices in Creative Industries: The Case of Fur in Fashion
In creative industries, a producer’s choice to use specific cultural practices is often driven by considerations of industry-specific notions of creativity and artistic vision. Creative producers claim autonomy over which practices are deemed desirable or legitimate, creating resistance to influences from outside the industry, such as from social movements. This study proposes that in such contexts, externally-driven change depends on the role of…
Transitory ties: A network ecology perspective on job opportunities in fashion modeling
Giulia Mensitieri, “Le plus beau métier du monde”. Dans les coulisses de l’industrie de la mode: La Découverte, Paris, 2018, 276 p
L’objectif de Giulia Mensitieri dans Le plus beau métier du monde est double : tout d’abord, offrir une description (de type ethnographique) du quotidien de certains participants de l’industrie de la mode ; ensuite, théoriser l’évolution du travail dans un monde postfordiste, notamment l’acceptation par de nombreux travailleurs et travailleuses de conditions précaires (par exemple du travail gratuit) dans les industries dites « créatives » (dont …
Consumption, Fashion and
Fashion is a key sociological topic. It is both about change and dress. From a consumption point of view, it must be related to its production side, because the way dress is produced impacts the way it is consumed, and vice versa. Fashion consumption is traditionally seen as coming from social imitation and distinction, but various other factors need to be taken into account, such as identity, and all related dimensions (age, ethnicity, gender, r…
Networks on the walls: Analyzing "traces" of institutional logics in museums' permanent exhibitions
Fashion
As a sociological phenomenon par excellence, fashion has drawn the attention of prominent social theorists. A simple way to characterize fashion is “being first with the latest.” It is an inherently social and relational phenomenon not restricted to particular domains, although most research on fashion is concerned with dress. Fashion has been economically and socially salient since the Renaissance but its role has been amplified with the emergen…
Why is Style Not in Fashion? Using the Concept of “Style” to Understand the Creative Industries
Because we lack a usable definition of the concept of style to inform research on the creative industries, this chapter takes a first step toward developing a style-based perspective on them. The use of style in disciplines where the study of creative industries occupies a notable position (sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and management) is compared and contrasted with a series of related concepts (status, fashion, trend, genre, moveme…
Culture, structure, and the market interface: Exploring the networks of stylistic elements and houses in fashion
The Trendmakers: Behind the Scenes of the Global Fashion Industry
Brokerage and Production in the American and French Entertainment Industries: Invisible Hands in Cultural Markets
Making the Most of the Revolving Door: The Impact of Outward Personnel Mobility Networks on Organizational Creativity
We examine the impact of key personnel’s loss to competition on their former employers’ creative performance. Using archival data on the career histories of designers and the creative performance of their fashion houses between 2000 and 2010, we find that a house’s outward centrality in the network of personnel mobility—resulting from personnel departures—has an inverted U-shaped relationship with the house’s creative performance. This relationsh…
Drivers of China’s Desire for Luxury and Consequences for Luxury Brands
Luxury plays a pivotal role in the traditional structure of Chinese society. In the Confucian tradition it is used to bind the different elements of the national community. For example, in a professional context, gift-giving is a way to honour one’s superiors, peers, or subordinates on special occasions. In a family context, it is a way to show gratitude to parents, relatives, or elders. As Tsai explains, to this day, luxury remains intertwined i…
The power structure of the fashion industry: Fashion capitals, globalization and creativity
Geography plays a crucial role in the fashion industry. For example, clothing brands are readily associated with specific countries and cities, and the apparel value chain is globalized in ways that have generated a lot of attention from social scientists, for example regarding outsourcing. In this article, the geographical perspective on fashion is extended and analysed through a power angle. In other words, the origins of the current ‘oligarchi…
Empires, Federated Arrangements, and Kingdoms: Using Political Models of Governance to Understand Firms’ Creative Performance
Firms can be conceived as political entities in which various stakeholders struggle against each other to reach goals. From this standpoint, the organizational structure of a firm, together with the power relations and strategies deployed by stakeholders, constitute a governance regime. It is understood that the economic performance of a firm is impacted by the type of governance regime which is at play among its different stakeholders, but littl…
Sociology of Fashion: Order and Change
In this article, we synthesize and analyze sociological understanding of fashion, with the main part of the review devoted to classical and recent sociological work. To further the development of this largely interdisciplinary field, we also highlight the key points of research in other disciplines. We define fashion as an unplanned process of recurrent change against a backdrop of order in the public realm. We clarify this definition after traci…
Trend Networks: Multidimensional Proximity and the Formation of Aesthetic Choices in the Creative Economy
Godart F. C. Trend networks: multidimensional proximity and the formation of aesthetic choices in the creative economy, Regional Studies. In sociology, a key challenge is to comprehend the formation of aesthetic choices in the highly uncertain settings of the creative industries. The multidimensional proximity perspective – which goes beyond the geographical – developed in economic geography can be used to complement sociological approaches to th…
Economic sociology at the crossroads
Prise de décision créative en situation d'incertitude: Le Cas De La Sélection Des Mannequins Par Les Maisons De Mode1
Face à l'existence d'une forte incertitude dans les industries dites « de la création », comment les producteurs culturels prennent-ils des décisions ? Nous abordons cette question en étudiant un cas particulier, la sélection des mannequins par les maisons de mode pour leurs défilés dans les villes de New York, Londres, Milan et Paris. Les données utilisées sont à la fois qualitatives (entretiens ethnographiques) et quantitatives (analyse de rése…
Network-Domains in Combat and Fashion Organizations
This article adapts and extends the ‘network-domain’ concept from Harrison White’s Identity and Control in order to consider how social ties are interwoven with domains of meaning in organizations. Our interpretation claims that modalities of behaviour in organizations are consequences of identities’ persistent movements among positions in network-domains as well as organizational efforts to manage these movements. This idea is outlined through d…
Sociologie de la mode
Les choix, les goûts sont dictés par la mode qui pourtant paraît changeante et imprévisible. Cet ouvrage présente une analyse sociologique de la mode, à travers le monde du vêtement et du luxe grâce à plusieurs concepts : la mode de l'identité sociale, des tendances, etc
Switchings under uncertainty: The coming and becoming of meanings
How Do Cultural Producers Make Creative Decisions? Lessons from the Catwalk
Faced with high uncertainty, how do producers in the cultural economy make creative decisions? We present a case study of the fashion modeling industry. Using participant observation, interviews and network analysis of the Spring/Summer 2007 Fashion Week collections, we explain how producers select models for fashion shows. While fashion producers conceive of their selection of models as a matter of “taste,” or personal preference, we find that t…
Mobilizing Identities: Uncertainty and Control in Strategy
Some see the development and execution of strategy as necessarily driving outcomes of organizational activity, thereby ignoring counter-actions, stochastic disturbances and unintended consequences. We suggest an alternative to these deterministic assumptions based on a broader view of social organization and illustrated through case example. Strategy does imply some mobilization of network resources according to desired ends and projected events.…
Sociology of Fashion: Order and Change
In this article, we synthesize and analyze sociological understanding of fashion, with the main part of the review devoted to classical and recent sociological work. To further the development of this largely interdisciplinary field, we also highlight the key points of research in other disciplines. We define fashion as an unplanned process of recurrent change against a backdrop of order in the public realm. We clarify this definition after traci…
How Do Cultural Producers Make Creative Decisions? Lessons from the Catwalk
Faced with high uncertainty, how do producers in the cultural economy make creative decisions? We present a case study of the fashion modeling industry. Using participant observation, interviews and network analysis of the Spring/Summer 2007 Fashion Week collections, we explain how producers select models for fashion shows. While fashion producers conceive of their selection of models as a matter of “taste,” or personal preference, we find that t…
Switchings under uncertainty: The coming and becoming of meanings
Mobilizing Identities: Uncertainty and Control in Strategy
Some see the development and execution of strategy as necessarily driving outcomes of organizational activity, thereby ignoring counter-actions, stochastic disturbances and unintended consequences. We suggest an alternative to these deterministic assumptions based on a broader view of social organization and illustrated through case example. Strategy does imply some mobilization of network resources according to desired ends and projected events.…
Culture, structure, and the market interface: Exploring the networks of stylistic elements and houses in fashion
The power structure of the fashion industry: Fashion capitals, globalization and creativity
Geography plays a crucial role in the fashion industry. For example, clothing brands are readily associated with specific countries and cities, and the apparel value chain is globalized in ways that have generated a lot of attention from social scientists, for example regarding outsourcing. In this article, the geographical perspective on fashion is extended and analysed through a power angle. In other words, the origins of the current ‘oligarchi…
Trend Networks: Multidimensional Proximity and the Formation of Aesthetic Choices in the Creative Economy
Godart F. C. Trend networks: multidimensional proximity and the formation of aesthetic choices in the creative economy, Regional Studies. In sociology, a key challenge is to comprehend the formation of aesthetic choices in the highly uncertain settings of the creative industries. The multidimensional proximity perspective – which goes beyond the geographical – developed in economic geography can be used to complement sociological approaches to th…
Brokerage and Production in the American and French Entertainment Industries: Invisible Hands in Cultural Markets
Networks on the walls: Analyzing "traces" of institutional logics in museums' permanent exhibitions
The Trendmakers: Behind the Scenes of the Global Fashion Industry
Mobilizing Identities: Uncertainty and Control in Strategy
Some see the development and execution of strategy as necessarily driving outcomes of organizational activity, thereby ignoring counter-actions, stochastic disturbances and unintended consequences. We suggest an alternative to these deterministic assumptions based on a broader view of social organization and illustrated through case example. Strategy does imply some mobilization of network resources according to desired ends and projected events.…
How Do Cultural Producers Make Creative Decisions? Lessons from the Catwalk
Faced with high uncertainty, how do producers in the cultural economy make creative decisions? We present a case study of the fashion modeling industry. Using participant observation, interviews and network analysis of the Spring/Summer 2007 Fashion Week collections, we explain how producers select models for fashion shows. While fashion producers conceive of their selection of models as a matter of “taste,” or personal preference, we find that t…
Network-Domains in Combat and Fashion Organizations
This article adapts and extends the ‘network-domain’ concept from Harrison White’s Identity and Control in order to consider how social ties are interwoven with domains of meaning in organizations. Our interpretation claims that modalities of behaviour in organizations are consequences of identities’ persistent movements among positions in network-domains as well as organizational efforts to manage these movements. This idea is outlined through d…
Sociologie de la mode
Les choix, les goûts sont dictés par la mode qui pourtant paraît changeante et imprévisible. Cet ouvrage présente une analyse sociologique de la mode, à travers le monde du vêtement et du luxe grâce à plusieurs concepts : la mode de l'identité sociale, des tendances, etc
Switchings under uncertainty: The coming and becoming of meanings
Prise de décision créative en situation d'incertitude: Le Cas De La Sélection Des Mannequins Par Les Maisons De Mode1
Face à l'existence d'une forte incertitude dans les industries dites « de la création », comment les producteurs culturels prennent-ils des décisions ? Nous abordons cette question en étudiant un cas particulier, la sélection des mannequins par les maisons de mode pour leurs défilés dans les villes de New York, Londres, Milan et Paris. Les données utilisées sont à la fois qualitatives (entretiens ethnographiques) et quantitatives (analyse de rése…
Trend Networks: Multidimensional Proximity and the Formation of Aesthetic Choices in the Creative Economy
Godart F. C. Trend networks: multidimensional proximity and the formation of aesthetic choices in the creative economy, Regional Studies. In sociology, a key challenge is to comprehend the formation of aesthetic choices in the highly uncertain settings of the creative industries. The multidimensional proximity perspective – which goes beyond the geographical – developed in economic geography can be used to complement sociological approaches to th…
Economic sociology at the crossroads
Empires, Federated Arrangements, and Kingdoms: Using Political Models of Governance to Understand Firms’ Creative Performance
Firms can be conceived as political entities in which various stakeholders struggle against each other to reach goals. From this standpoint, the organizational structure of a firm, together with the power relations and strategies deployed by stakeholders, constitute a governance regime. It is understood that the economic performance of a firm is impacted by the type of governance regime which is at play among its different stakeholders, but littl…
Sociology of Fashion: Order and Change
In this article, we synthesize and analyze sociological understanding of fashion, with the main part of the review devoted to classical and recent sociological work. To further the development of this largely interdisciplinary field, we also highlight the key points of research in other disciplines. We define fashion as an unplanned process of recurrent change against a backdrop of order in the public realm. We clarify this definition after traci…
Making the Most of the Revolving Door: The Impact of Outward Personnel Mobility Networks on Organizational Creativity
We examine the impact of key personnel’s loss to competition on their former employers’ creative performance. Using archival data on the career histories of designers and the creative performance of their fashion houses between 2000 and 2010, we find that a house’s outward centrality in the network of personnel mobility—resulting from personnel departures—has an inverted U-shaped relationship with the house’s creative performance. This relationsh…
Drivers of China’s Desire for Luxury and Consequences for Luxury Brands
Luxury plays a pivotal role in the traditional structure of Chinese society. In the Confucian tradition it is used to bind the different elements of the national community. For example, in a professional context, gift-giving is a way to honour one’s superiors, peers, or subordinates on special occasions. In a family context, it is a way to show gratitude to parents, relatives, or elders. As Tsai explains, to this day, luxury remains intertwined i…
The power structure of the fashion industry: Fashion capitals, globalization and creativity
Geography plays a crucial role in the fashion industry. For example, clothing brands are readily associated with specific countries and cities, and the apparel value chain is globalized in ways that have generated a lot of attention from social scientists, for example regarding outsourcing. In this article, the geographical perspective on fashion is extended and analysed through a power angle. In other words, the origins of the current ‘oligarchi…
Brokerage and Production in the American and French Entertainment Industries: Invisible Hands in Cultural Markets
The Trendmakers: Behind the Scenes of the Global Fashion Industry
Why is Style Not in Fashion? Using the Concept of “Style” to Understand the Creative Industries
Because we lack a usable definition of the concept of style to inform research on the creative industries, this chapter takes a first step toward developing a style-based perspective on them. The use of style in disciplines where the study of creative industries occupies a notable position (sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and management) is compared and contrasted with a series of related concepts (status, fashion, trend, genre, moveme…
Culture, structure, and the market interface: Exploring the networks of stylistic elements and houses in fashion
Fashion
As a sociological phenomenon par excellence, fashion has drawn the attention of prominent social theorists. A simple way to characterize fashion is “being first with the latest.” It is an inherently social and relational phenomenon not restricted to particular domains, although most research on fashion is concerned with dress. Fashion has been economically and socially salient since the Renaissance but its role has been amplified with the emergen…
Giulia Mensitieri, “Le plus beau métier du monde”. Dans les coulisses de l’industrie de la mode: La Découverte, Paris, 2018, 276 p
L’objectif de Giulia Mensitieri dans Le plus beau métier du monde est double : tout d’abord, offrir une description (de type ethnographique) du quotidien de certains participants de l’industrie de la mode ; ensuite, théoriser l’évolution du travail dans un monde postfordiste, notamment l’acceptation par de nombreux travailleurs et travailleuses de conditions précaires (par exemple du travail gratuit) dans les industries dites « créatives » (dont …
Consumption, Fashion and
Fashion is a key sociological topic. It is both about change and dress. From a consumption point of view, it must be related to its production side, because the way dress is produced impacts the way it is consumed, and vice versa. Fashion consumption is traditionally seen as coming from social imitation and distinction, but various other factors need to be taken into account, such as identity, and all related dimensions (age, ethnicity, gender, r…
Networks on the walls: Analyzing "traces" of institutional logics in museums' permanent exhibitions
Transitory ties: A network ecology perspective on job opportunities in fashion modeling
Gatekeeping and the Use of Contested Practices in Creative Industries: The Case of Fur in Fashion
In creative industries, a producer’s choice to use specific cultural practices is often driven by considerations of industry-specific notions of creativity and artistic vision. Creative producers claim autonomy over which practices are deemed desirable or legitimate, creating resistance to influences from outside the industry, such as from social movements. This study proposes that in such contexts, externally-driven change depends on the role of…
Sociology (17 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Business (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (8 works)