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TFSC Digital Creative Industries
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Call for Papers Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Special Issue on “Digital Technology and the Creative Industries: Disassembly and Reassambly” (Full Title)
Guest Editors:
Vincent Mangematin, Grenoble School of Management, France, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Jonathan Sapsed, University of Brighton, United Kingdom, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Elke Schüßler, Free University of Berlin, Germany, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Digital technologies fundamentally shake existing business models of creation, transaction, and distribution (disassembly), yet they also offer reassembly through new tools for creativity, new architectures for mass collaboration and user involvement, and the accelerated generation of new market categories. By analyzing the varying roles of digital technology in the creative industries, we hope to better understand complex innovation and transformation processes on a number of levels – from organizational practices to industry structures. – and in a number of spheres – economic, legal, and social – , spanning both national and transnational institutional arrangements.
We call for theoretical and empirical papers that may be qualitative or quantitative in method. Themes are suggested but not limited to the following areas:
− How do old business models collapse in organizational terms? What can we learn from detailed case studies? How are new business models discovered, devised and implemented? What is the role of private and public actors in pursuing systemic business model innovation strategies? How is the success of these strategies
assessed?
− How do existing firms rejuvenate through digital technologies and creative industries?
− Which are the actor groups that benefit from digitalization and which lose? What are the effects on the creation and distribution of value?
− What is the role of collective action processes as seen in social movements in overcoming rigidities?
− To what extent are digital and material organization forms substitutes or complementary? To what extent are boundaries permeable between the different business models?
− How do organizational boundaries and managerial practices change with the digitalization of products and processes?
− What is the relationship between digital processes and the openness of innovation? Is creation democratized through digital technologies?
− Which are the impacts of digitalization on the world of creation? How does creation evolve? Which would be the new forms of exhibitions, appropriation, and collection of arts in a digital world?
− To what extent does digitalization transform the geography of creation? Globalization? Co-creation by distant artists?
− How does digitalization compare to other forms of technological innovation in creative industries?
If you are interested in contributing to this Special Issue, please note that the deadline for submission of full papers is 30th of October 2011. All submitted papers will go through the normal review process and only those that meet the requirements of TFSC will be accepted for publication. Manuscripts should be submitted online via Elsevier's online submission system indicating in the letter that they are for this Special Issue. Please also refer to TFSC's “Guide for Authors” for the styling and formatting guidelines.
Please note that the guest editors are organizing a track at the EGOS conference in Gotenburg in July 2011. The deadline for the submission of short papers is January 16th, 2011.