Transforming creative potential in project networks: how TV movies are produced under network-based control

Manning, Stephan and Sydow, Jörg (2007) Transforming creative potential in project networks: how TV movies are produced under network-based control. Critical Sociology, 33 (1-2). pp. 19-42. ISSN 0896-9205

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Abstract

Project networks have been identified as dynamic, yet relatively stable organizational forms in project-based creative industries. They materialize in longer-term actor relationships which are actualized by and institutionalized through particular projects. This article examines how project networks transform creative potential for and beyond particular projects. The transformation process is enabled and constrained by the dialectic of network-based control which refers to the capacity of actors to reproduce relational power and autonomy within actor constellations in project networks. This study is empirically based on a qualitative analysis of two projects launched from project networks of two major German TV production companies. Theoretically, the study draws on concepts from structuration theory.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Creative work, project organizing, network organizing, project network, TV movie production, labor transformation, structuration theory
Schools and Departments: University of Sussex Business School > Business and Management
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Depositing User: Stephan Manning
Date Deposited: 26 Sep 2019 14:59
Last Modified: 26 Sep 2019 14:59
URI: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/86275
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