Management and Creativity
From Creative Industries to Creative Management

1. Auflage August 2006
216 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This book explores the relationship between the management of
creativity and creative approaches to management.
* Challenges the stereotypical opposition between
'creatives' and 'suits'.
* Draws on the work of management theorists such as Mintzberg and
Porter and creativity theorists such as Amabile and Boden.
* Draws on the practical experience of individuals working in the
creative industries.
* Looks at the place of creative organisations and creative
business management in a new creative economy, based on ideas,
images and information.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Creativity and the Creative Industries.
1. Defining Creativity.
A Tale of Two Corridors.
What Is Creativity?.
What Creativity Is Not.
Case Study: A Vision in a Dream?.
Mapping the Great Divide: From Education to the Workplace.
The Mythology of Genius.
Case Study: The Genius and the Water-carrier.
False Profits: The Creative Industries.
2. From Individuals to Processes: Creative Teams andInnovation.
From Individuals to Teams.
Innovation and Teams.
Beyond Specialization: Creative Work in the CreativeIndustries.
Playing Many Parts: Creative Roles in the CreativeIndustries.
Case Study: Repositioning Creativity in Advertising.
Growing the Creative Team: Familiarization orSpecialization?.
Managing the Creative Team.
Creative Tension and the Need for Trust.
Creative Teams Need Uncreative People.
3. Creative Systems: Implications for Management and Policyin the Creative Industries.
The Cultural Geography of the Creative Industries.
The Strength of Weak Ties.
Case Study: Theatre as a Creative System.
Implications for Management.
Managing Creative Systems by 'Brokering'Knowledge.
Implications for Policy.
Systems and Sustainability.
4. Managing Creative Work through Release and Control: TheMyth of the Self-motivated Creative Worker.
The World Turned Upside Down.
Case Study: Changing Management Styles at the BBC.
Whistle While You Work: Changing Theories of EmployeeMotivation.
Out of Control: The Myth of the Self-motivated CreativeWorker.
The Isolation of Creative Work.
Bounded Creativity: Creativity through Control andConstraint.
Case Study: Musician for Hire -- Boundaries for MusicalComposition.
False Freedom: The New Management Style in Practice.
Case Study: Management in the Movies -- Wise Children and Men inSuits.
Beginnings and Endings.
The Rules of the Game.
5. Seeing the Pattern: Strategy, Leadership andAdhocracy.
The Strategy Wars: Orientation versus Animation.
Strategy and Creativity.
Strategy in an Open System.
Case Study: Emergent Patterns in Film Marketing.
Strategy as Continuity in Change.
Case Study: Are You Paying Attention? Jazz, Improvisation andCreative Listening in Strategy Formation.
Strategy and Posthocracy: Being Decisive.
Strategy as Process.
6. Business Development and Organizational Change.
What Is Organizational Change?.
The Change Cycle.
Incremental Change.
Case Study: Creativity and Change at Marks and Spencer.
The Aesthetics of Organizational Change: OrganizationalIntegrity.
Aligning Individual and Collective Change.
Evolutionary Change.
Creativity and Change.
7. From Creative Marketing to Creative Consumption.
Symbolic Goods.
Postmodern Marketing.
Case Study: Arts Marketing -- From Products to Experiences.
From Segments to Sub-cultures: Bringing the Audience Backin.
The New Value Chain.
Case Study: In Search of Oldton.
Towards the Social Product.
Letting Go.
The Aesthetics of Marketing.
8. The Politics of Creativity.
Promoting the Creative Economy.
Case Study: Creative New Zealand -- The Branding ofCreativity.
From 'Cultural' to 'Creative'Industries.
Creative Industries and Cultural Policy: Assumptions andModels.
The Politics of Management.
Creativity Is Difficult.
Bibliography.
Index.
of creativity really matters - not only in the context of
developing more vibrant and personally satisfying areas of economic
activity, but even more importantly, in its ability to help us
develop a better understanding of the value of creative individuals
in the 21st century" from the foreword by Lord Puttnam
"This is an exceptional book in three respects. Firstly, it is a
book about management that truly appreciates the creative process.
Secondly, it is a book about creativity that understands and seeks
to engage with practical business realities. And, finally,
Management and Creativity actually proves its own thesis:
that the best thinking occurs when the worlds of
"creativity" and "business" intersect."
Stephen Cummings, Victoria University of Wellington
"The book will appeal to a broad audience of creatives,
policy-markers and students looking for an alterantice, sounder
framework for understanding how to nurture creativity in the
workplace." Management Today