Careers in Creative Industries

Chris Mathieu (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 1138960616 / ISBN 13: 9781138960619

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015

About this Item

Editor(s): Mathieu, Chris. Num Pages: 300 pages, 39 black & white illustrations, 33 black & white tables, 2 black & white halftones, 4 bla. BIC Classification: AB; KNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453. . 2015. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Careers in Creative Industries
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138960616
• ISBN 13: 9781138960619
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

This book comprises current, original, empirical studies of career-making in theatre, music, film, TV, visual arts, fashion design, and architecture from Asia, Europe, and North America. This format facilitates comparative analysis of central features of career-making within as well as across both specific industries and national contexts. The studies empirically and theoretically analyze issues such as career management, temporality, location, recognition processes, competition, uncertainty, gender, chance-arbitrariness, education-to-work transition, mediators, the ‘individualization’ of careers, and collaboration partnerships. The book is at the forefront and intersection of contemporary career research and research on work in creative industries / the cultural economy, intertwining both subjective and objective approaches to and dimensions of career. The book moves beyond the dichotomies that have characterized recent career theory and work on creative industries in terms of ‘boundarylessness-boundedness’ and ‘good and bad work’ to examine the factors that facilitate and restrict horizontal and vertical mobility, sometimes simultaneously and paradoxically, and the trade-offs involved, and the simultaneous positive and negative dimensions of given phenomena. The chapters also analyze the operation and significance of various formal and informal recognition processes from the macro state level down to minute interpersonal interaction that are central to career-making in creative industries.

About the Author

Chris Mathieu is Associate Professor and director of the Masters programs in HRM at Copenhagen Business School. His recent publications include "Transforming the Danish Film Field Via "Professionalization", Penetration and Integration", Creativity and Innovation Management 15(3), and "Is this what we should be comparing when comparing film production regimes?" Creative Industries Journal 1(2).