Transforming Creative Potential in Project Networks

How TV Movies Are Produced under Network-Based Control

Bibliographic Data

ID2299993
AuthorsStephan Manning (0000-0002-9575-4168, Duke University, corresponding author), Jörg Sydow (0000-0002-9359-7242, Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume33
Issue1-2
Pages19-42
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1163/156916307x168575
OpenAlexW1969176922
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited42

Project networks have been identified as dynamic, yet relatively stable organizational forms in project-based creative industries. They materialize in longer-term actor relationships which are actualized by and institutionalized through particular projects. This article examines how project networks transform creative potential for and beyond particular projects. The transformation process is enabled and constrained by the dialectic of network-based control which refers to the capacity of actors to reproduce relational power and autonomy within actor constellations in project networks. This study is empirically based on a qualitative analysis of two projects launched from project networks of two major German TV production companies. Theoretically, the study draws on concepts from structuration theory

Actor–network theory · Autonomy · Constellation · Creative industries · Dialectic · Economics · Epistemology · German · Knowledge management · Management · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Structuration theory · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Management and Organizational Studies

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