The Cultural and creative industries: organisational and spatial challenges to their governance [Recurs electrònic] = Die Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft: organisatorische und räumliche Herausforderungen an ihre Governance / Andy C. Pratt

By: Publication details: London : King's College London, University of London, 2012Description: 19 p. : digital, fitxer PDF (348,10 Kb)Other title:
  • Die Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft: organisatorische und räumliche Herausforderungen an ihre Governance
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In: Die Erde Vol. 143, n. 4 (2012), p. 317-334Summary: This paper registers the growth in importance of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) in terms of their economic, social, cultural and geographical dimensions. However, it also notes that the CCI do not fit easily within the existing institutions of government and policy-making, or of the academic disciplinary world. The development of cultural mapping has delivered a number of conceptual refinements and empirical findings that have underlined the fact that the CCI do play a significant role in societies, one that is changing rapidly. Policy-making responses to these challenges have focused thus far on output mapping, far less attention has been paid to process. Geographers have made a significant contribution to this field, notably with respect to clustering and embedding of CCI. We discuss how the policy towards CCI is different to both cultural policy and industrial policy and, accordingly, how this presents a challenge to the establishment of a new policy field. This paper seeks to elaborate this debate in the context of geography. We stress the need to consider governance as an institutional modality that relates more closely to the form of the CCI. Moreover, management has to be carried out by process, not through outputs. We argue that the governance of such systems might be more readily achieved in the interstitial space of networks and in the making of networks. These processes will involve more than simply the insertion of a 'linkage' but will have the potential to re-articulate and transform both the production systems of the CCI and the governance structures. Our paper also points to a range of complex organisation forms that underlie the simple output growth of the CCI. This has led some to point to a need to reconsider the potential effectiveness of traditional policy-making (particularly that based on output management) and suggested that attention to process management, exploring the technologies and techniques of governance, might be a useful way to progress the debate. Certainly, the challenge of managing across the boundaries of the public/private, the for-profit/not-for-profit, the formal/informal is a live issue. This paper finally offers some examples of how particular forms of intermediaries and intermediation might present a suitable site for intervention; moreover, that these forms might be a productive site for further research investigation. (Font: Autor)
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1. Introduction -- 2. A Brief Overview of the Field -- 3. The Shifting Analytical Field of the CCI -- 4. The Object of Policy and Governance: the CCI and their Organisation -- 5. Governance, not Policy -- 6. The Art and Craft of Governance -- 7. Conclusion -- 8. References

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