Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107403731 ISBN 13: 9781107403734

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

In this book, experts from a diverse range of fields discuss the challenges and opportunities of managing people in creative industries.

About this title

Book Description

The creative industries are an area of increasing economic importance. In Managing Creativity a team of experts from a diverse range of fields - including management, fine art, music, the internet, design, theatre and publishing - discuss the challenges and opportunities of managing people in creative-based organizations.

About the Author

Barbara Townley is Professor of Management and Director of the Institute for Capitalising on Creativity at the University of St Andrews. Her research concerns the introduction of managerial technologies (appraisal systems, business planning and performance measures) and the impact of these on institutional logics that inform organizational functioning. Her most recent book is Reason's Neglect (2008). Nic Beech is Professor of Management at the University of St Andrews. He is the founding chair of the British Academy of Management special interest group on identity and co-chair of the Scottish Network on Organizational Vitality. His research is mainly focused on the social dynamics of organizational life - the intertwining of people's identities, relationships and practices. He is co-author (with Eugene McKenna) of The Essence of HRM (2008, 2nd edition).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107403731
• ISBN 13: 9781107403734
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Townley Barbara