How Aesthetics and Economy Become Conversant in Creative Firms
(2018) In Organization Studies 39(11). p.1501-1519- Abstract
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... (More)
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.
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- author
- Austin, Robert ; Hjorth, Daniel LU and Hessel, Shannon
- publishing date
- 2018-11-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- conversation, creative economy, creative firms, ensemble, group creativity, organizational aesthetics
- in
- Organization Studies
- volume
- 39
- issue
- 11
- pages
- 19 pages
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85041913982
- ISSN
- 0170-8406
- DOI
- 10.1177/0170840617736940
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2017.
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