To assemble, distribute, and store creative products, business firms are organized, some employing creative personnel on long-term contracts, others dealing with them as outside contractors; agents emerge as intermediaries, negotiating contracts and matching creative talents with employers. Firms in creative industries are either small-scale pickers that concentrate on the selection and development of new creative talents or large-scale promoters that undertake the packaging and widespread distribution of established creative goods. In some activities, such as the performing arts, creative ventures facing high fixed costs turn to nonprofit firms.
To explain the logic of these arrangements, the author draws on the analytical resources of industrial economics and the theory of contracts. He addresses the winner-take-all character of many creative activities that brings wealth and renown to some artists while dooming others to frustration; why the "option" form of contract is so prevalent; and why even savvy producers get sucked into making "ten-ton turkeys," such as "Heaven's Gate," However different their superficial organization and aesthetic properties, whether high or low in cultural ranking, creative industries share the same underlyingorganizational logic.
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To assemble, distribute, and store creative products, business firms are organized, some employing creative personnel on long-term contracts, others dealing with them as outside contractors; agents emerge as intermediaries, negotiating contracts and matching creative talents with employers. Firms in creative industries are either small-scale pickers that concentrate on the selection and development of new creative talents or large-scale promoters that undertake the packaging and widespread distribution of established creative goods. In some activities, such as the performing arts, creative ventures facing high fixed costs turn to nonprofit firms.
To explain the logic of these arrangements, the author draws on the analytical resources of industrial economics and the theory of contracts. He addresses the winner-take-all character of many creative activities that brings wealth and renown to some artists while dooming others to frustration; why the "option" form of contract is so prevalent; and why even savvy producers get sucked into making "ten-ton turkeys," such as "Heaven's Gate," However different their superficial organization and aesthetic properties, whether high or low in cultural ranking, creative industries share the same underlyingorganizational logic.
Imprint | Harvard University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | May 2002 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | April 2002 |
Authors | Richard E Caves |
Dimensions | 237 x 163 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 464 |
Edition | Revised |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-00808-3 |
Barcode | 9780674008083 |
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LSN | 0-674-00808-1 |