How Aesthetics and Economy Become Conversant in Creative Firms

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ID23199113
AutoresRobert D Austin (0000-0002-0251-932X), Robert Austin (0000-0003-2376-7530, Ivey Business School), Daniel Hjorth (0000-0002-3798-2584, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK, autor correspondente), Shannon Hessel (Copenhagen Business School)
Ano2018
Volume39
Fascículo11
Páginas1501-1519
Data de publicação2018-11-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOrganization Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0170-8406 • E-ISSN: 1741-3044
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0170840617736940
OpenAlexW2766540116
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas46

Research on creative organizations often highlights a concern that economic influences on creative work might crowd out aesthetic influences. How this concern can be managed, however, is not well understood. Using a case study of an economic/aesthetic conflict within a design firm, we develop theory to describe how the economic and aesthetic can be constructively combined. We propose the concept of conversation as a way of theorizing a constructed sociality via which creative firms manage this conflict; we also propose the concept of ensemble as a way of theorizing a conversationally nurtured but fragile form of intensified sociality that most successfully combines conflicting influences when it can be achieved. Together, these theoretical conceptualizations contribute new insights and help organize a fragmented landscape of ideas about work in creative firms.

Aesthetics · Conversation · Creative work · Epistemology · Political science · Sociality · Sociology · Work (physics) · Communication · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Innovation and Knowledge Management

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