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Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Barbara Townley
Edited by Nic Beech
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:364
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreThe arts - general issues
Entrepreneurship
Management and management techniques
Organizational theory and behaviour
ISBN/Barcode 9781107403734
ClassificationsDewey:658.314
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 27 October 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

What are the challenges and opportunities of managing people in creative industries? How are the tensions between creative and commercial pressures mediated? The creative industries are an area of increasing economic importance. Yet creative industries and creative-based organizations are rife with problems such as whether and how control of the creative process should be exercised; the extent to which knowledge of creative production may be made explicit; and how the 'connection' between producer and consumer should be mediated. In Managing Creativity a team of experts from a diverse range of fields - including management, fine art, music, the internet, design, theatre and publishing - discuss these and other problems concerning the relationship between management and creativity. Developing an appreciation of these problems is theoretically productive, not only because it throws light onto our understanding of creative-based organizations, but also because it can be revelatory about organizations more generally.