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Book SynopsisFrom authors used to operating between the commercial, public and independent sectors of the mixed cultural economy, Understanding Creative Business bridges the gap between creative practice and mainstream business organisation, entrepreneurship and management. Using stories, case studies and exercises it discusses the positioning of creative practice within professional and business development, cultural policy-making and the wider cultural economy, and suggests what the broader field of business and management studies can learn from the informal structure and working practices of creative industries networks. Consideration is given to how ethical and moral value orientations animate creative practice and how they play into the wider debate about social responsibilities within business and public policy. The authors also explore the way creative business practices often coalesce around emergent and self-organized networks and how this signals alternative approaches to management, en
Trade Review'The crash of 2008 marked the end of one form of rather autistic capitalism. But below the surface a new way of doing business has been emerging - it is ethical and has integrity because it's based on the reciprocity of deep relationships. If the economic base has at least some bearing on the social infrastructure then anyone who wants to understand the economy and society should read Understanding Creative Business.' Neal Lawson, Chair of Compass and author of All Consuming
Table of ContentsContents: Part I Values: New spectacles for Juliette?; Why bother? The expansion of care; Taking part in the existence of things: an ecological lens; Being good and doing right: a philosophical lens; Everyday skills in care: contact lenses; Seeing the right priorities: a professional lens. Part II Networks: From a competitive economy to a creative ecology?; How to make friends and influence people; Whom do I get into bed with?; The nature of relationships; Organizing coral reefs. Part III Innovation: Mozart and the innovation economy; Thinking about the way to do thinking: epistemological choices; Different methods: which tools to use, why, when and how; The flow of ideas: creative business innovation; ’The rules and peculiarities of various instruments’: innovation skills; Houses of learning: cultural organizations for cultural innovations. Part IV Summary: Making a dish of it: where is creativity?; Creative business at a transformative moment?; References; Index.
