Jesper Strandgaard

Professor with special responsibilities , PhD
Jesper Strandgaard

Department of Organization

Kilen, Kilevej 14A, 4.79
2000 Frederiksberg

Tel.: +45 3815 2804
Fax:+45 2815 2828
E-mail: js.ioa@cbs.dk

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Affiliated with Imagine.. Creative Industries Research Center

Research interests

Leader of the research project ‘CINEMA – Organizing and Managing Creative Enterprises’ - a research project concerned with the study of the film industry and film making, studying how innovative, high framework filmmakers organise, manage and combine creativity with commercial interests.

The film industry and filmmaking is seen as a prominent example of a creative industry, where each production is a new project demanding new collaborative partners. Film projects are seen as complex, temporary systems, which require creative-cultural, human, financial and material resources to be realised. CINEMA focuses on the nexus between culture and economy - as a central problem in creative industries appears to be the coordination of symbolic and material production, creativity and commerce. The research question pursued is: ‘How creative, film making enterprises organise and manage the coupling between artistic and commercial activities?’

The high framework film production dominates European and Scandinavian filmmaking, yet our knowledge about high framework film production is limited. CINEMA focuses on the organising and negotiation of roles, statuses, identities and emotions in relation to core organisational activities (divisions of labour, coordination of flows of knowledge, the handling of complex tasks and practices) related to film making. CINEMA generates knowledge through the application of systematic and rigorous qualitative methodologies combined with a multi-method field study approach.

Primary research areas

Organization theory
Organizational culture and symbolism
Institutional theory
Organizational integration and transformation
Organizing and managing creative and innovative filmmaking enterprises
The role of media and educational institutions in relation to production, diffusion and consumption of managerial knowledge and management concepts
Mergers and acquisitions; organizational integration and organizational transformation

Administrative functions

Director of 'Imagine.. Creative Industries Research Center' (CIR)

Selected publications

Moeran, B. and Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (eds.) (forthcoming). The Negotiation of Values in the Creative Industries: Fairs, Festivals and Competitive Events. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

Moeran, B. and Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (forthcoming) Introduction. In Moeran, B. and Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (eds.) (forthcoming). The Negotiation of Values in the Creative Industries: Fairs, Festivals and Competitive Events. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

Mezias, S., Strandgaard Pedersen, J, Kim, Ji-Hyun, Svejenova, S. and Mazza, C. (forthcoming). Transforming Film Product Identities: The Status Effects of European Premier Film Festivals, 1996-2005. In Moeran, B. and Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (eds.) (forthcoming). The Negotiation of Values in the Creative Industries: Fairs, Festivals and Competitive Events. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

Rüling , C.C. and Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (forthcoming). Film festival research from an organizational studies perspective. Scandinavian Journal of Management.

Boxenbaum, E. and J.Strandgaard Pedersen (2009) Scandinavian Institutionalism – a case of institutional work. In Lawrence, T., R. Suddaby, & B. Leca, (Eds.), Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations (‘the work’). pp. 178-204. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

Mathieu, C. og Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (red.) (2009). Dansk film i krydsfeltet mellem konkurrence og samarbejde. pp. 1-200. Arkiv Förlag. Lund.

Strandgaard Pedersen og Mathieu (2009). Udviklingstræk i dansk film 1995-2007. I Mathieu og Strandgaard Pedersen (red.). Dansk film i krydsfeltet mellem konkurrence og samarbejde, pp. 15-35. Arkiv Förlag. Lund.

Strandgaard Pedersen, Reff Pedersen og Boutaiba (2009). Zentropa - identitetsskabelse via medierne. I Mathieu og Strandgaard Pedersen (red.) Dansk film i krydsfeltet mellem konkurrence og samarbejde, pp. 113-141. Arkiv Förlag. Lund.

Lorenzen, M, Kristensen, T. Skov, L. and Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (eds.). (2008). Når oplevelser møder økonomi. Kreative virksomheder, brancher og steder. pp. 1-269. Forlaget Klim. Århus.

Lorenzen, M, Kristensen, T. Skov, L. og Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (2008). Introduktion. Kreativitet og mødet mellem oplevelser og økonomi. I Lorenzen et al. (eds.) Når oplevelser møder økonomi. pp.11-24. Forlaget Klim. Århus.

Boutaiba, S., Darmer, P., Mathieu, C.J. og Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (2008). Professionelt samspil mellem kunst og forretning – en analyse af det danske filminstitut. In Lorenzen et al. (eds.) Når oplevelser møder økonomi. pp. 73-104. Forlaget Klim. Århus.

Reff Pedersen, A. and Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (2008). The Role of Media in the Co-Production of Identities in a Filmmaking Company. Tamara: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science. 7 (7.1): 91-208

Darmer, P, C. Mathieu, J. Strandgaard Pedersen og S.M. Strandvad (2007) Professionalisering i den danske filmindustri: Det Danske Filminstitut. I Bærenholdt, J.O. og J. Sundbo (eds.). Oplevelsesøkonomi, Forbrug og Kultur, pp. 209-229. Samfundslitteratur. København.

Last updated by Dorrit Majlund 09/06/2010