Daniel Hjorth

Ulf G. Lindén Professor i estetik och företagets kreativitet, Centrumföreståndare, Centrum för estetik och företagets kreativitet (ABC)

How Aesthetics and Economy Become Conversant in Creative Firms

Författare

Robert Austin
Daniel Hjorth
Shannon Hessel

Summary, in English

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.

Publiceringsår

2018-11-01

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1501-1519

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Organization Studies

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