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What’s in a Name? Giving Form and Meaning to a New Culinary Category

ABSTRACT. This study examines how a new category gains form and meaning in the presence of multiple logics, competing labels, and multiple modes of sensegiving and sensemaking. We analyze the work of four emblematic chefs associated with the emerging category of ‘molecular gastronomy’ from 1995 to 2015: Grant Achatz, Ferran Adrià, Heston Blumenthal, and Massimo Bottura. We show that category formation is a circular and iterative process, consisting of three sub-processes that take place recurrently until its stabilization: creation of innovative work, contestation emerging from the misinterpretation of innovators’ efforts, and consolidation of the meanings and practices associated with the new category. Our study reveals that a new category’s label that is in opposition with the intended meaning of the creators can nonetheless bring that category forward by triggering creators’ engagement in politics of meaning. We conclude by discussing implications of our work and outlining future research directions.

BIO. Barbara Slavich is Associate Professor in the Department of Management at IESEG School of Management (Paris) and Affiliate Professor of Organization and Human Resources Management at SDA Bocconi School of Management (Milan). She holds a double PhD degree in Management from ESADE Business School (Barcelona, Spain) and Università Ca’ Foscari (Venice, Italy). She was visiting scholar at Duke University, North Carolina (USA). She is the Director of the Master in Fashion Management at IESEG School of Management. She teaches courses on organization theory and design, organizational behavior, creativity and innovation management. She has published her research in academic peer reviewed journals, like Organization Studies, Journal of Business Research, European Management Journal, International Journal of Arts Management, and in edited books, like the Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries. Her research focuses on creativity management, identity, status and social evaluations in creative industries.

February 10th

10:00 - 12:00

Kilevej 14 A/B, 2000 Frederiksberg

KL 3.41

Imagine.. Seminar with Barbara Slavich: What’s in a Name? Giving Form and Meaning to a New Culinary Category

Abstract: This study examines how a new category gains form and meaning in the presence of multiple logics, competing labels, and multiple modes of sensegiving and sensemaking. We analyze the work of four emblematic chefs associated with the emerging category of ‘molecular gastronomy’ from 1995 to 2015: Grant Achatz, Ferran Adrià, Heston Blumenthal, and Massimo Bottura. We show that category formation is a circular and iterative process, consisting of three sub-processes that take place recurrently until its stabilization: creation of innovative work, contestation emerging from the misinterpretation of innovators’ efforts, and consolidation of the meanings and practices associated with the new category. Our study reveals that a new category’s label that is in opposition with the intended meaning of the creators can nonetheless bring that category forward by triggering creators’ engagement in politics of meaning. We conclude by discussing implications of our work and outlining future research directions.

Barbara Slavich is Associate Professor in the Department of Management at IESEG School of Management (Paris) and Affiliate Professor of Organization and Human Resources Management at SDA Bocconi School of Management (Milan). She holds a double PhD degree in Management from ESADE Business School (Barcelona, Spain) and Università Ca’ Foscari (Venice, Italy). She was visiting scholar at Duke University, North Carolina (USA). She is the Director of the Master in Fashion Management at IESEG School of Management. She teaches courses on organization theory and design, organizational behavior, creativity and innovation management. She has published her research in academic peer reviewed journals, like Organization Studies, Journal of Business Research, European Management Journal, International Journal of Arts Management, and in edited books, like the Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries. Her research focuses on creativity management, identity, status and social evaluations in creative industries.

"The Invention of a Festival in a World Heritage Site: Logic, Actors, Action" with Carmelo Mazza

A World Heritage site is a perfect object to study how arts and management may collide. On one side, UNESCO sets significant constraints and demanding goals engaging both cultural organizations and local administration. On the other side, expectations of increased revenues from tourism rise the need of proper site management.

"How Are You, My Dearest Mozart? Well-being and Creativity of Three Famous Composers Based on their Letters" with Karol Borowiecki, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark

Abstract: The importance of creativity is being increasingly recognized by economists, however the possibility that emotional factors determine creative processes are grossly ignored. Building on 1,400 letters written by three famous music composers, I obtain well-being indices that span their lifetime. The validity of this methodology is shown by linking the indices with biographical information and through estimation of the determinants of well-being. I find, consistent with the psychological economics literature, that work-related engagements and accomplishments are positively related with well-being, while poor health or death of a relative are detrimental. I then exploit the data and provide quantitative evidence on the existence of a causal impact of negative emotions on outstanding creativity, an association hypothesized across several disciplines since the Antiquity; however, not yet convincingly established for the case of extraordinary achievers.

Dr Borowiecki is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Economics at the University of Southern Denmark. He holds a PhD in Economics from Trinity College Dublin, where he has been also serving as an Adjunct Lecturer and Academic Coordinator. His research interests are mainly in economic history and cultural economics and also touches on urban economics (creative clusters) and labor economics (especially migration of creative people).

"Game Changer: The Topology of Creativity in Video Game Development" with David Stark

Network research suggests that a team topology balancing familiarity (via cohesion) and diversity (via brokerage) is the key to success. We go beyond the duality of brokerage and closure by adopting the concept of structural folding – the generative tension in overlapping cohesive groups. In elaborating the causal mechanisms at work in structural folding, we hypothesize that the effects of structural folding on inventiveness and on creative success are especially strong when overlapping groups are cognitively distant.

Teams are most likely to produce game changing creative success when their cognitively heterogeneous communities have points of intersection. We draw on work on topologies of knowledge in the field of semiotics to conceptualize the role of folding in channeling and mobilizing the productive tension of cognitive distance. To test our hypothesis about structural folding and cognitive distance, we study the historical mechanisms of team reassembly in the video game industry. We collected data on 12,094 video games that were produced from the inception of the industry in 1979 to 2009. Because we measure inventiveness independently from critical success, we can test whether teams with structural folds that span cognitively distant communities are able to develop distinctive products that are, at the same time, recognized as successful in the video gaming field.

David Stark took his Ph.D. at Harvard and is today Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. At present he is Visiting Professor at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School. His most recent book, The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life, was published by Princeton University Press in 2009.  Stark studies how organizations and their members search for what is valuable.

To visit Stark’s homepage click here.

"Interpretive Mediation in Museums: Introduction of a new digital tool in the French musée du quai Branly" with Sylvian Colombero

Grounded in institutional theory, my research focuses on how a higher status organization in the field of cultural institutions adopts and uses a digital innovation. I present a pilot study of the musée du quai Branly in Paris, which exhibits non-Western arts, focusing on the modern and digital audioguide tool, which mediates between exhibition pieces and visitors. The mediation allowed by this innovation remains controversial in relation to these unusual masterworks and their interpretations. Through an analysis of micro processes, I show how internal controversies manifest in the current business model that underpins the introduction of the audioguide, including the value of mediation desired by the museum. I conclude by exploring the use of bricolage as a way to better implement the digital innovation via the business model. Sylvain Colombero is a PhD student at Centre de Gestion Scientifique at Mines ParisTech.

"What’s good? Profession meets management in news(paper or web?)’s newsrooms" with Elena Raviola

My research focuses on the news field, investigating in particular how traditional newspaper organization cope with technological changes. Building on institutional theory as well as science and technology studies, I have investigated how journalistic professional norms, practices, and boundaries are created and recreated with different work technologies. In this presentation, I will present my studies at Il Sole-24 Ore, the largest Italian financial newspaper, Göteborgs-Posten, the fourth Swedish newspaper, and Rue89, an online-online news website started in 2007. Across these studies I will focus on the changing and not-changing aspects of the relationship between journalism and management.
 
Elena is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School. She completed her PhD in Business Administration at Jönköping International Business School. Her research focuses on media, and on how news media organize their production across different technologies. 

"Dancing around a cultural site: Context, actors and the (invented) tradition of a festival" with Carmelo Mazza - THE EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

A cultural site is a perfect object to study how arts and management may collide. Within the New Institutional approach to organizations studies, competing or multiple institutional logics have been largely referred as triggers for these clashes (Greenwood and Suddaby, 2006; Thornton, Ocasio and Lounsbury, 2012). Variety of strategic action by the professional groups, leading to different institutional work (Lawrence and Suddaby, 2006; Lawrence, Suddaby and Leca, 2009), have been also referred upon as a key factor explaining conflicts.
Those approaches tend to investigate contexts where well established professional groups are in action. This is very often the case of well acknowledged cultural settings. In this paper, I propose to look at a different context where weak ties among loosely coupled cultural organizations, local administration and other local actor prevail: the Basilica di San Michele Arcangelo at Monte Sant’Angelo (Apulia, Italy) in 2011 included in UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL). Including a site in UNESCO WHL can be a main institutional accomplishment for a small village in the South of Italy. It also requires a novel attention to cultural projects and events and a new model of partnership among local administrations and cultural institutions. In this paper, I use the inclusion within WHL as the arena where relations among existing institutional actors in cultural field are reconfigured and new institutional actors emerge, get institutionalized and become a tradition.
In particular, I focus my research attention on the institutional logics and institutional works paving the way to the emergence of a novel cultural organization that became in a few years the champion of the new cultural projects and events in WHL site. It is the case of the rise and transformation of a local festival, FestambienteSud, organized by the nation-wide green organization Legambiente, turning into the key cultural event of the territory. I claim that this peculiar empirical analysis may help shed light on some interesting dynamics in the management of cultural organizations.
First, it shows how the need for cultural heritage management (triggered by UNESCO WHL process) is a potential factor for field transformation. In the case of Monte Sant’Angelo, it clearly works as a (cultural) jolt (Greenwood and Suddaby, 2006) opening space for new projects and events. Second, it accounts for the emergence of a new cultural institution marking a discontinuity with the previous models of relation with local administrations. In the case of FestambienteSud, the cultural event developed as a platform above and beyond local politics and funding constraints although fully rooted in Monte Sant’Angelo identity. Third, it narrates how a multi-disciplinary artistic festival became a tradition (Hobsbawm and Ranger, 1978) by meeting the emergent institutional logics underpinning the WHL inclusion.
 
Carmelo Mazza is an Adjunct Professor at Department of Business and Management at LUISS Business School in Italy. He completed his PhD in Business Administration at IESE Business school, Spain. His core teaching focus in organizational behaviour is about power & politics dynamics within organizational decision making contexts.

Keywords: Institutional work, alignment, cultural organization.

Center for Leisure and Culture Services at INT presents a seminar with Brian Wheeller

Brian Wheeller holds degrees in Economics, in Applied Economics, in the Economic Impacts of Tourism, and in American Studies. His doctorate on Critiquing Eco/Ego/Sustainable Tourism contextualises the debate within the wider arena of tourism planning and management, policy and practice. In addition, his interests have evolved and broadened over the years, his current research revolving around the links between travel, tourism and popular culture - in particular literature, art, photography, film, music - and their relevance to contemporary tourism thinking.

Seminar by David Throsby

David Throsby is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.  He is internationally recognised for his research and writing on the economics of art and culture.  His current research interests include the economic circumstances of artists, culture in economic development, heritage economics, the creative economy and the relationships between economic and cultural policy. 

Seminar by Amelie Boutinot

Reputation-building is a difficult process, but one that is vital to survive and improve career paths in creative industries. One reason artists face difficulties is that reputation-building may lack of clarity in the relationships between the various and apparently distinct kinds of reputation an artist can have. This paper suggests understanding better the way several kinds of reputations are built and combined in creative industries. Our structural model results, based on a sample of 103 contemporary French architects, indicate that the specific reputations an artist can acquire are inter-constituted and interact with each other. Thanks to our empirical study, we contribute to reputation and creative industries literatures.

Seminar by Lasse Steiner

The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that artistic work might result in exceptionally high job satisfaction, a conjecture that has been mentioned at various times in the literature.

"Mechanisms of Institutional Re-Emergence and Field Level Identity Change: Swiss Watchmaking, 1983-2008" with Ryan Raffaell

We seek to understand the processes and mechanisms whereby “dying” technologies in an institutionalized field re-emerge at a later date.

"Aesthetic experience, consumer competences and experiential marketing"
Seminar by Antonella Caru´  

NORTHORS 23: THE VALUE(S) OF TOURISM 2-4 OCTOBER 2014

04/25/2014

Dear Colleagues,

The 23rd Nordic Symposium for Tourism and Hospitality Research will take place on 2-4 October, 2014 in Copenhagen. Denmark. The event will be preceded by a welcoming reception in the evening of October 1, honoured by the presence of representatives from Copenhagen City administration.

The symposium is hosted by the Center for Leisure and Culture Services research (CLCS) at Copenhagen Business School, and organized in collaboration with the Tourism Research Unit, at Aalborg University, Campus Copenhagen.

We are privileged to have as keynote speakers reputable tourism scholars from the Nordic countries and beyond: Professor Jafar Jafari, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA; Professor Monika Büscher, Lancaster University, UK, Associate professor Bodil Stilling Blichfeldt, Aalborg University, Denmark, and Professor Thomas O'Dell, Lund University, Sweden

Under the overarching theme of The Value(s) of Tourism, the 23rd Nordic Symposium has the goal of contributing to trans-disciplinary discussions that represent multiple empirical, conceptual or methodological approaches to contemporary tourism phenomena and challenges. Therefore, the Scientific Committee invites scholars to submit abstracts that address one or more of the conference themes enlisted in the Call for Papers on the conference website. Please note that new conference tracks have been added recently.

Submission of abstracts is welcomed until 1 May, 2014 while early bird registration fees are available only until 15 June, 2014. Detailed information about the registration procedure and practical arrangements are available on the website of the symposium. 

Additional accommodation options and details about the social programme will be available soon, and attendees are encouraged to visit the symposium website regularly.

We look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen!

The Organizing Committee:

Adriana Budeanu, Ana Maria Munar, Can Seng Ooi, Carina A Hallin, Kristian A. Hvass (CLCS-CBS), Carina Bregnholm Ren and Szilvia Gyimóthy (TRU-AAU)

Wardrobe Network in November

THEMES OF THE WORKSHOP

One of the themes for the present workshop is sustainability and action research, with presentations on

1) design ethnography by shoe designer Catherine Willems, University College Ghent

2) a project to revitalize the Norwegian wool industry by consumer researcher Ingun Klepp, National Institute for Consumer Research, Oslo, and

3) fashion entrepreneurship and the difficulty of intervening in the flighty Danish design scene.

The second theme is local couture histories, with presentations on

4) the Uzbek textile heritage in the era of independence, by Gabriele Mentges,

5) the methodological challenges OF REINTERPRETING LOCAL FASHION HISTORY BY MARIE Riegels Melchior, Designmuseum Danmark,

6) on haute couture as local business by historian Veronique Pouillard, Oslo University and

7) on the influence of local culture on Swedish fashion by art historian Ulrika Berglund, Stockholm University.

Contact person at Department of Intercultural Communication and Management

Associate professor Lise Skov, ls.ikl@cbs.dk

Birgit Stöber: Lecturer, IKL

• 17.4.2010 Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2010 Washington, session "Intersections of Creativity" presentation title: "Music from Berlin"

• 23.9.2010 Konference "kulturbro - Femern belt" in Salzau, presentation title: "Kultur som chance og udfordring i Femernbelt regionen"

• 5.10.2010 "Evolving Market Fields" - workshop at University Bielefeld, presentation title: "New Media and Music products: A case from the classical music scene"

Trine Bille: Lecturer, INO

• International kulturøkonomisk konference i København. 19 april 2010. Available from
  http://www.kulturforvalterne.dk/Artikler/2010/InternationalKulturoekonom...

• Vi prater egentligen om olika saker. 17 juni 2010. Available from http://www.kulturekonomi.se

imagine .. is co-organising the conference: Creativity from a Global Perspective: An International Conference on the Creative Industries from October 18 – 20 2010

The pursuit of the creative industries is no longer limited to the developed world. Emerging markets and the developing world are also engaged in promoting various creative industries. While brick and mortar remain important, policy makers are aware that innovation and creativity are significant economic driving forces both now and in the future. Creative industries prize ideas and knowledge, translating creativity into economic value. Creative activities take on a spectrum of guises, ranging from films and paintings to city branding and new media development.

The creative industries as areas of research are also getting popular. This conference gathers researchers from around the world to discuss and further their knowledge on the creative industries. Shanghai is the perfect setting. It will host Expo 2010 and is a highly vibrant, rapidly growing city. During this conference, participants will not only experience aspects of Shanghai but also visit creative industry sites and companies.

Time
October 18-20 2010

Venue
The Nordic Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Keynote speakers

• Prof. Li Wuwei, President of Shanghai Creative Industries Association, Director of Research Centre for Creative Industries, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (TBC)

• Prof. Brian Moeran, Director of ©reative Encounters: The Socio-Economic Organization of Creative Industries, Copenhagen Business School

Working Languages
The working languages of the conference are English and Mandarin. Interpreters will be used for communication during the conference. Abstracts of papers will also be translated.

Organisers 
Nordic Centre, Fudan University
Copenhagen Business School
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Lund University
Aalborg University

Links
Visit Nordic Centre's website for practical and updated information

Contact: Can-Seng Ooi, CBS, ooi@cbs.dk

imagine .. and CINEMA konference: The second annual conference on "Cultural production in a Global context: The Worldwide Film Industries conference".

Konferencen afholdes primært for akademikere tilknyttet sidste års konference men vi inviterer også folk fra filmbranchen til konferencen.

Kontakt:
Hvis du skulle have interesse i at deltage på konferencen kontakt da professor Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen på js.ioa@cbs.dk.

Dato:
Konferencen finder sted fra den 29-31 maj 2008.

Adresse:
Copenhagen Business School
Kilen
Kilevej 14A
Lokale K.S.071
DK - 2000 Frederiksberg

Links:
Besøg konferencehjemmesiden
Besøg CINEMA hjemmesiden

Theme Panel: "At the Cross-road of National and Cosmopolitan: Interweaving of Organizations and Organizing in Creative Industries", co-chaired by Jesper Strandgaard, Candace Jones and Silviya Svejenova, as part of the 22nd EGOS COLLOQUIUM "The Organizing Society" in Bergen

Dato:
Konferencen afholdes den 6-8 juli 2006.

CINEMA konference: Venner for livet? – dansk film i krydsfeltet mellem samarbejde & konkurrence”

Konferencen bliver afholdt for en forholdsvis lille kreds af deltagere, men skulle du have interesse i at deltage kontakt da Jesper Schlamovitz på js.ioa@cbs.dk.

Dato:
Konferencen afholdes den 27-28 april 2006.

Link:
Besøg CINEMA hjemmesiden

Årets økonomistyringskonference 2006: ”Grænsebrydende ledelse i den globale viden- og oplevelsesøkonomi” er med deltagelse af imagine.. medlem lektor Mark Lorenzen med oplægget: ”Når Danmark skal overleve som viden-, oplevelses- og innovationsøkonomi”.

Dato:
Konferencen afholdes den 1. juni 2006.

"Interdisciplinary Conference of Fashion and Dress Cultures"

Dato:
Konferencen afholdes den 26-28 oktober 2005.

Link:
For yderligere information se Interdisciplinary Conference of Fashion and Dress Cultures.

Theme Panel: "(Un)Wrapping Creative Industries and Organizations", co-chaired by Jesper Strandgaard, Candace Jones and Silviya Svejenova, as part of the 21st EGOS COLLOQUIUM "Unlocking Organizations" at Freie Universität Berlin.

Dato:
Konferencen afholdes den 30. juni- 2. juli 2005.

The DRUID Tenth Anniversary Summer Conference 2005 on "Dynamics of Industry and Innovation: Organizations, Networks and Systems" Chariman: Peter Maskell, Institut for Innovation og Organisationsøkonomi, CBS.

Dato:
Konferencen afholdes den 27-29 juni 2005.

"Designere kan vinde i fællesskab" 
For yderligere information se Designere kan vinde i fællesskab.

Dato:
Konferencen afholdes den 7. juni 2005.