Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries
About the Book Series
This series brings together book-length original research in cultural and creative industries from a range of perspectives. Charting developments in contemporary cultural and creative industries thinking around the world, the series aims to shape the research agenda to reflect the expanding significance of the creative sector in a globalised world.
Advertising as a Creative Industry: Regime of Paradoxes
1st Edition
By Izabela Derda
January 30, 2025
At the crossroads of culture and commerce, the advertising industry is a regime of paradoxes. This book examines the place of advertising in today’s creative industries, exploring the major challenges advertisers confront as they engage with other creative sectors. Izabela Derda, author, media ...
Professionalization in the Creative Sector: Policy, Collective Action, and Institutionalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret J. Wyszomirski, WoongJo Chang
January 30, 2025
This book seeks to better understand the processes and influences that have driven professionalization in the arts. It develops an analytical framework that examines how processes of professionalization that typically influence and shape work conditions and occupational status are, in the creative ...
Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist Critique and Social Networks in the Cultural Industries
1st Edition
By Xin Gu
December 18, 2024
This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliberal creativity discourse – from the distribution of resources around cultural production to consumption, and from the management of ‘labour time’ to ‘...
Global Art Markets: History and Current Trends
1st Edition
Edited
By Iain Robertson, Derrick Chong, Luís U. Afonso
November 29, 2024
The art market is worth billions globally, despite the effects of the Covid-19 health pandemic. This book brings together a strong cast of contributors to explore contemporary and historical themes. Readers of the book will gain awareness of how historical foundations of arts markets continue to ...
Innovative Cultural Tourism in European Peripheries
1st Edition
Edited
By Karol Jan Borowiecki, Antonella Fresa, José María Martín Civantos
November 27, 2024
Cultural tourism can play an important role in social and territorial cohesion. Focusing on European peripheral regions, this book illuminates the importance of local communities in heritage management for sustainable development. This book provides insights into the use of innovative business ...
Business Model Innovation in Creative and Cultural Industries
1st Edition
Edited
By Pierre Roy, Estelle Pellegrin-Boucher
October 31, 2024
Business model innovation occurs when an organization discovers a new way of creating revenues or profits via its products or services. This book examines the concept as it applies across the creative and cultural industries in practice. This book examines market, social and political environments ...
Cultural Politics of the Creative Industries
1st Edition
By Phil Graham
October 11, 2024
This book presents the creative industries as a suite of practices intimately connected to political, economic, and cultural power. Seeking to illuminate the creative industries through critical cultural analysis it shows the extent to which creative labour shapes our shared cultural and ...
Gender Equality and the Cultural Economy: Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
By Helmut K. Anheier, Darinka Markovic
September 12, 2024
The status of women in the creative and cultural industries remains precarious. This comparative analysis provides insights from seven key economies to help understand progress towards gender equality in culture and the arts and the broader cultural economy. With empirical and policy analysis ...
Managing Cultural Joint Ventures: An Identity-Image View
1st Edition
By Tanja Johansson, Annukka Jyrämä, Kaari Kiitsak-Prikk
August 26, 2024
This book provides an in-depth exploration of two key aspects of managing cultural collaborations: managing the multiple identities of venture participants and managing the diverse images and brand relationships. There are a variety of books available on mergers and acquisitions in the corporate ...
Public Relations as a Creative Industry
1st Edition
By Elisenda Estanyol
August 26, 2024
This shortform book defines and situates the role of Public Relations as a creative industry and discusses the trends and issues that the sector is facing within the wider context of the Creative Industries. Traversing and distilling both industry and scholarly research, the author will call on ...
The Venice Arsenal: Between History, Heritage, and Re-use
1st Edition
Edited
By Luca Zan
August 26, 2024
This book reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site of inestimable value – the Venice Arsenal. Focusing on the challenges of economic, financial and institutional feasibility, it reveals how failing to address these aspects has undermined potential solutions from ...
Researching the Creative and Cultural Industries: A Guide to Qualitative Research
1st Edition
By Simone Wesner
August 01, 2024
Research into creative and cultural organisations has proliferated, benefitting from insights from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Starting a research journey can be daunting in such a diverse field. This book provides expert insights into research process and practice, with a qualitative ...