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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.

63 Series Titles


The Venice Arsenal Between History, Heritage, and Re-use

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

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 ...

Orchestra Management Models and Repertoires for the Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra Management: Models and Repertoires for the Symphony Orchestra

1st Edition

By Arne Herman
May 27, 2024

Every orchestra in the world oscillates between crisis and survival. This perpetual movement makes innovation, both in organizational form and in artistic product, vital to the sustainability of the symphony orchestra. Based on case study research in Flanders, Amsterdam and London, this book ...

Data-Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries

Data-Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries

1st Edition

Edited By Melissa Terras, Vikki Jones, Nicola Osborne, Chris Speed
April 17, 2024

The creative industries – the place where art, business, and technology meet in economic activity – have been hugely affected by the relatively recent digitalisation (and often monetisation) of work, home, relationships, and leisure. Such trends were accelerated by the global COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Music as Labour Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present

Music as Labour: Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present

1st Edition

Edited By Dagmar Abfalter, Rosa Reitsamer
January 29, 2024

This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism. Providing insights into labour processes and practices, the authors ...

Risk in the Film Business Known Unknowns

Risk in the Film Business: Known Unknowns

1st Edition

By Michael Franklin
January 29, 2024

This book explores the complex, multifaceted and contested subject of risk in the film business. How risk is understood and managed has a substantial impact upon which films are financed, produced and seen. Founded on substantial original research accessing the highest level of industry ...

Diversity and Inclusion: Are We Nearly There Yet? Target Setting in the Screen Industries

Diversity and Inclusion: Are We Nearly There Yet?: Target Setting in the Screen Industries

1st Edition

By Doris Ruth Eikhof
November 09, 2023

This book provides the first compact knowledge base on diversity & inclusion (D&I) targets in the UK screen industries. Drawing on new, in-depth industry research and progressive theoretical voices, the book will help readers understand what D&I targets are and what they could be in the...

Co-Leadership in the Arts and Culture Sharing Values and Vision

Co-Leadership in the Arts and Culture: Sharing Values and Vision

1st Edition

By Wendy Reid, Hilde Fjellvær
September 25, 2023

This book is about co-leadership: A leadership practice and structure often found in arts organizations that consist of two or three executives who bridge the art and business divide at the top. Many practitioners recognize this phenomenon but the research on this topic is limited and dispersed. ...

Cultural Industries and the Covid-19 Pandemic A European Focus

Cultural Industries and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A European Focus

1st Edition

Edited By Elisa Salvador, Trilce Navarrete, Andrej Srakar
September 25, 2023

Already dealing with disruptive market forces, the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) faced fundamental challenges resulting from the global health crisis, wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. With catastrophic changes to cultural consumption, cultural organizations are dealing with short-, ...

Managing Cultural Festivals Tradition and Innovation in Europe

Managing Cultural Festivals: Tradition and Innovation in Europe

1st Edition

Edited By Elisa Salvador, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen
September 25, 2023

This book aims at renewing the attention on a niche field, Cultural Festivals, so important for valorizing cultural traditions and local heritage visibility as well as social well-being. Following the disruptive consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, this fragile sector deserves more attention from...

Strategic Cultural Center Management

Strategic Cultural Center Management

1st Edition

By Tomas Jarvinen
May 31, 2023

Strategic Cultural Center Management focuses on private cultural centers and their operational preconditions. The aim is to illustrate how to strategically manage a cultural center in varied external environments. Analysing processes of organizational change, the author uses institutional and ...

The Metamorphosis of Cultural and Creative Organizations Exploring Change from a Spatial Perspective

The Metamorphosis of Cultural and Creative Organizations: Exploring Change from a Spatial Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Federica De Molli, Marilena Vecco
May 31, 2023

Organizations in the creative and cultural sector are experiencing transformational change. This book offers a new way of exploring the transformational processes that these organizations are going through, by focusing on their organizational space. By bringing together theoretical and empirical ...

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