Chris Bilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6329004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Bilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Bilton |
| SIGNATURE | BILTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Balancing Act
This article analyses the lived experience of writers and musicians in order to examine the relationship between motivation and creative work in the creative industries. Moving beyond understandings of creativity as a discrete task or competence, it demonstrates the role of motivation across different stages of a creative process, projects and career stages. It finds that (1) creative workers’ intrinsic motivation is often intertwined with extrin…
Making Media
Cultural policy as mythical narrative
In this paper, we argue that policy assumptions are shaped by mythical narratives carrying underlying beliefs and values. Drawing on narrative studies, organisational theory and Gramsci’s cultural hegemony theory, we examine how sense-making narratives create consensus, how they imply causation and individual agency, and finally how narratives fragment to reveal alternatives to hegemonic ‘common sense’ assumptions. Applying this framework to cult…
Cultural Work and Higher Education
Handbook of Management and Creativity
Creativity and Cultural Policy
Uncreativity
This paper argues that our fascination with creativity is distracting and potentially destructive, resulting in a tendency to discard projects and people before they achieve their potential. ‘Uncreativity’ is used to recognise the importance of continuity over change, the contribution of intermediaries and administrators to creative processes and the possibility of reconfiguring and refining existing ideas rather than inventing new ones. The pape…
Managing creativity
Managing creativity: exploring the paradox, edited by Barbara Townley and Nic Beech, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, 364 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-521-51853-6 Creativity is ev
Charles Dickens, Hard times
Charles Dickens, Hard times: for these times ." International Journal of Cultural Policy, 16(1), pp. 15–16
Manageable creativity
This article notes a perception in mainstream management theory and practice that creativity has shifted from being disruptive or destructive to ‘manageable’. This concept of manageable creativity in business is reflected in a similar rhetoric in cultural policy, especially towards the creative industries. The article argues that the idea of ‘manageable creativity’ can be traced back to a ‘heroic’ and a ‘structural’ model of creativity. It is arg…
Jane Addams, pragmatism and cultural policy
This article examines the American social reformer Jane Addams (1860–1935), not so much as an intellectual in her own right, but rather as somebody who embodied certain contradictions regarding the cultural idealism of the intellectual class in the late nineteenth century. Addams’ principal achievement was to co‐found a “settlement house” in Chicago in 1889. Settlement houses were residential communities established by universities among the urba…
What can managers do for creativity? Brokering creativity in the creative industries
Creativity' has become a fashionable term in the contemporary managerial and political lexicon, signalling generalised approval in education, business and the arts. In Britain, 'creative industries' has replaced 'cultural industries' as the umbrella term for artistic and cultural production and distribution, and 'creativity' has been incorporated into the national tourism brand . In business, managers and academics use 'creativity' to indicate an…
Risky business
Many small business advisers in Britain are understandably reluctant to accept that independent creative and media businesses are different from any other small business. After all, small business start-ups face similar problems (cash-flow, lack of capital investment) and need advice and training on similar issues (financial planning, marketing, basic business skills). Likewise many British entrepreneurs would argue that creativity and risk are n…
What can managers do for creativity? Brokering creativity in the creative industries
Creativity' has become a fashionable term in the contemporary managerial and political lexicon, signalling generalised approval in education, business and the arts. In Britain, 'creative industries' has replaced 'cultural industries' as the umbrella term for artistic and cultural production and distribution, and 'creativity' has been incorporated into the national tourism brand . In business, managers and academics use 'creativity' to indicate an…
Manageable creativity
This article notes a perception in mainstream management theory and practice that creativity has shifted from being disruptive or destructive to ‘manageable’. This concept of manageable creativity in business is reflected in a similar rhetoric in cultural policy, especially towards the creative industries. The article argues that the idea of ‘manageable creativity’ can be traced back to a ‘heroic’ and a ‘structural’ model of creativity. It is arg…
Balancing Act
This article analyses the lived experience of writers and musicians in order to examine the relationship between motivation and creative work in the creative industries. Moving beyond understandings of creativity as a discrete task or competence, it demonstrates the role of motivation across different stages of a creative process, projects and career stages. It finds that (1) creative workers’ intrinsic motivation is often intertwined with extrin…
Managing creativity
Managing creativity: exploring the paradox, edited by Barbara Townley and Nic Beech, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, 364 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-521-51853-6 Creativity is ev
Jane Addams, pragmatism and cultural policy
This article examines the American social reformer Jane Addams (1860–1935), not so much as an intellectual in her own right, but rather as somebody who embodied certain contradictions regarding the cultural idealism of the intellectual class in the late nineteenth century. Addams’ principal achievement was to co‐found a “settlement house” in Chicago in 1889. Settlement houses were residential communities established by universities among the urba…
Risky business
Many small business advisers in Britain are understandably reluctant to accept that independent creative and media businesses are different from any other small business. After all, small business start-ups face similar problems (cash-flow, lack of capital investment) and need advice and training on similar issues (financial planning, marketing, basic business skills). Likewise many British entrepreneurs would argue that creativity and risk are n…
Uncreativity
This paper argues that our fascination with creativity is distracting and potentially destructive, resulting in a tendency to discard projects and people before they achieve their potential. ‘Uncreativity’ is used to recognise the importance of continuity over change, the contribution of intermediaries and administrators to creative processes and the possibility of reconfiguring and refining existing ideas rather than inventing new ones. The pape…
Risky business
Many small business advisers in Britain are understandably reluctant to accept that independent creative and media businesses are different from any other small business. After all, small business start-ups face similar problems (cash-flow, lack of capital investment) and need advice and training on similar issues (financial planning, marketing, basic business skills). Likewise many British entrepreneurs would argue that creativity and risk are n…
What can managers do for creativity? Brokering creativity in the creative industries
Creativity' has become a fashionable term in the contemporary managerial and political lexicon, signalling generalised approval in education, business and the arts. In Britain, 'creative industries' has replaced 'cultural industries' as the umbrella term for artistic and cultural production and distribution, and 'creativity' has been incorporated into the national tourism brand . In business, managers and academics use 'creativity' to indicate an…
Jane Addams, pragmatism and cultural policy
This article examines the American social reformer Jane Addams (1860–1935), not so much as an intellectual in her own right, but rather as somebody who embodied certain contradictions regarding the cultural idealism of the intellectual class in the late nineteenth century. Addams’ principal achievement was to co‐found a “settlement house” in Chicago in 1889. Settlement houses were residential communities established by universities among the urba…
Charles Dickens, Hard times
Charles Dickens, Hard times: for these times ." International Journal of Cultural Policy, 16(1), pp. 15–16
Manageable creativity
This article notes a perception in mainstream management theory and practice that creativity has shifted from being disruptive or destructive to ‘manageable’. This concept of manageable creativity in business is reflected in a similar rhetoric in cultural policy, especially towards the creative industries. The article argues that the idea of ‘manageable creativity’ can be traced back to a ‘heroic’ and a ‘structural’ model of creativity. It is arg…
Managing creativity
Managing creativity: exploring the paradox, edited by Barbara Townley and Nic Beech, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, 364 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-521-51853-6 Creativity is ev
Handbook of Management and Creativity
Creativity and Cultural Policy
Uncreativity
This paper argues that our fascination with creativity is distracting and potentially destructive, resulting in a tendency to discard projects and people before they achieve their potential. ‘Uncreativity’ is used to recognise the importance of continuity over change, the contribution of intermediaries and administrators to creative processes and the possibility of reconfiguring and refining existing ideas rather than inventing new ones. The pape…
Cultural Work and Higher Education
Making Media
Cultural policy as mythical narrative
In this paper, we argue that policy assumptions are shaped by mythical narratives carrying underlying beliefs and values. Drawing on narrative studies, organisational theory and Gramsci’s cultural hegemony theory, we examine how sense-making narratives create consensus, how they imply causation and individual agency, and finally how narratives fragment to reveal alternatives to hegemonic ‘common sense’ assumptions. Applying this framework to cult…
Balancing Act
This article analyses the lived experience of writers and musicians in order to examine the relationship between motivation and creative work in the creative industries. Moving beyond understandings of creativity as a discrete task or competence, it demonstrates the role of motivation across different stages of a creative process, projects and career stages. It finds that (1) creative workers’ intrinsic motivation is often intertwined with extrin…
Sociology (11 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (9 works) · Creativity (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Creative industries (5 works)