Dear AACORNER
I would like to draw your attention to the very recent Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Cultural Entrepreneurship with the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing:
http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=2613
For questions etc. please do get in touch.
Best wishes
Claus.
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Prof. Dr.oec. HSG Claus Noppeney
Bern University of the Arts & Business Department
Bern University of Applied Sciences
Morgartenstrasse 2c,
3014 Bern, Switzerland
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Guest Editors
· Kim Oliver Tokarski, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
· Claus Noppeney, Bern University of Applied Sciences & University of the Arts, Switzerland
· Nada Endrissat, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Call for Papers
For a Special Issue on "Cultural Entrepreneurship”
to be published in 2016 in the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (IJEV)
Paper Submission Deadline: 30th of November 2014
Relevance of Cultural Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice
Cultural entrepreneurship – as well as the cultural entrepreneur (e.g. Klamer 2011; Swedberg 2006; DiMaggio 1982) – has become a topic of high interest in debates around innovation and growth in the context of the so-called creative industries (Florida, 2012). Cultural Entrepreneurs are seen as the driving force behind the dynamics of the creative industries (Leadbeater & Oakley, 1999). They offer products and services of cultural, artistic, or entertainment value (Caves, 2000). Assumed spillover effects are thought to boost the capacity for innovation in other industries and to support the overall economic development and wealth creation. Despite some similarities between entrepreneurship in the creative industries and other, more mainstream industries, there are also some striking differences (e.g. Townley et al., 2009; Lounsbury & Glynn 2001). For example, firms in the creative industries such as design, music, multimedia, or the arts often remain small and many disappear from the market within 5 years of founding. At the same time, cultural entrepreneurs are often seen as ‚pioneers’: for example their reliance on (social) network-structure (e.g. Konrad 2013) and cluster-structures or with respect to their use of information technology in production processes (e.g. Jones, 2010). Cultural entrepreneurs and
the creative industries more generally, are considered ‚trend setters’ for other industries. The idea of creative destruction and creative renewal are not only characteristic of the cultural product but also of the organizational forms and structures (e.g. Lampel et al. 2000; DeFilippi et al., 2007).
About the Focus Issue on “Cultural Entrepreneurship”
The aim of this special issue is to take stock of the current research and knowledge on cultural entrepreneurship and to identify future trends. The overriding questions guiding this special issue are:
· What can the field of entrepreneurship learn from studying cultural entrepreneurship?
· In what sense are cultural entrepreneurs ‘pioneers’ for the field of entrepreneurship?
The special issue is particularly interested in attracting empirical papers (both qualitative and quantitative) that outline the consequences of their research for a better understanding of cultural entrepreneurship and the field of entrepreneurship more generally. Topics could include, but are not limited to, to questions of the following kind:
Structure and tools:
o Which organization- and management forms are characteristic for cultural entrepreneurs?
For example: How do their business models differ from business models in other industries?
Which leadership practices are to be found?
o What other management tools are common among cultural entrepreneurs in the creative industries?
Founding and growth motives:
o Why do artists and creative professionals decide to found a business (opportunity entrepreneurs or necessity entrepreneurs)?
o Which motives guide their decision and how do alternative career paths look like? How do they decide about firm growth or non-growth?
o What are their preferences and (scaling) strategies to grow? How do they secure a sustainable growth?
o If there is no growth strategy: What are other non-growth strategies and practices?
Identities and work practices:
o How does research on artistic identities and creative work practices inform our knowledge on cultural entrepreneurship?
o How are cultural entrepreneurs enabled (or hindered) by their professional self-concept and routine work practices?
We welcome papers of various theoretical backgrounds, including economics, sociology, psychology, career-, gender-, and critical management studies.
Submissions to this special issue should be original and creative. They should not have been published, accepted for publication or be under review for publication at
another journal.
Paper submission deadline
Submission deadline 30tt of November 2014
About the Journal
The IJEV proposes and fosters discussion on the organisational processes surrounding the concepts of opportunity, growth and value creation. Because the exploitation of opportunities, the subsequent growth of organisations around these opportunities and the value created by both processes are so vital to the creation and redistribution of societal wealth, the development and the dissemination of more systematic knowledge are required. Whilst some preliminary and traditional efforts in this direction have been taken, IJEV is open to new, creative and innovative research approaches, designs and methods. In an attempt to bridge the gap between research and practice, it emphasises the implications of this new knowledge for researchers, managers, public policy makers and business educators.
The objective of IJEV is to provide an international forum in the field of management with the particular focus on the phenomena of opportunity, growth and value creation by publishing quality research articles. It also aims to promote and to coordinate developments in these fields of management. As these areas have both economic and societal implications, IJEV encourages the broadening and deepening of thought in these fields. IJEV publishes original papers, conceptual papers, empirical papers, review papers, case studies, relevant reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news on topics from the perspectives of entrepreneurship and innovation management. Fresh, novel ideas and new ways of doing research are particularly welcome!
Readership
IJEV provides a vehicle to help academics, professionals, researchers and policy makers, working in the field of entrepreneurship, strategy, management, and business education, to create and to disseminate quality knowledge. The journal also provides a forum to allow interested parties to learn from each other's work.
Specific Notes for Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a double blind review process.
Papers should be no longer than 8'000 words and follow the guidelines of the IJEV journal which can be found on the Submission of Papers web-page:
(http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31).
All papers must be submitted online:
To submit a paper, please go to Online Submissions of Papers (http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=35&jid=123).
If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact [log in to unmask], describing the exact problem you experience.
(Please include in your email the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor.)
Contact
Prof. Dr. Claus Noppeney
Bern University of the Arts & Business Department
Bern University of Applied Sciences
Morgartenstrasse 2c,
3014 Bern, Switzerland
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References
o Caves, R. E. (2000). Creative industries: Contracts between art and commerce (No. 20). Harvard University Press.
o DeFillippi, R., Grabher, G., & Jones, C. (2007). Introduction to paradoxes of creativity: managerial and organizational challenges in the cultural economy. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 28(5), 511–521.
o DiMaggio, P.J. (1982). Cultural entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Boston: the creation of an organizational base for high culture in America. Media Culture and Society, 4, 33–50.
o Florida, R. L. (2012). The rise of the creative class: revisited. Basic Books.
o Jones, C. (2010). Finding a place in history: Symbolic and social networks in creative careers and collective memory. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31(5), 726–748.
o Klamer, A. (2011). Cultural entrepreneurship. The Review of Austrian Economics, 24(2), 141- 156.
o Konrad, E.D. (2013). Cultural Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Social Networking on Success. Creativity & Innovation Management, 22(3), 307–319.
o Lampel, J., Lant, T., & Shamsie, J. (2000). Balancing Act: Learning from Organizing Practices in Cultural Industries.Organization Science, 11(3), 263–269.
o Leadbeater, C., & Oakley, K. (1999). The Independents: Britain's new cultural entrepreneurs. Demos.
o Lounsbury, M. & Glynn. M.A. (2001): Cultural entrepreneurship: stories, legitimacy, and the acquisition of resources. Strategic Management Journal, 22(6/7), 545–564.
o Swedberg, R. (2006). The cultural entrepreneur and the creative industries: beginning in Vienna. Journal of Cultural Economics, 30, 243–261.
o Townley, B., Beech, N., & McKinlay, A. (2009). Managing in the creative industries: managing the motley crew.Human Relations, 62(7), 939-962.
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