The creative industries consist of profit-oriented enterprises involved in the creation, production, and distribution of arts, cultural, and creative goods and services. Scholars examining the creative industries have largely focused on the characteristics of individual art-entrepreneurs or the...

Firms use repeated partnerships to gain the benefits of shared experience such as improved coordination, collaboration, and adaptation. However, there are downsides to partnering repeatedly, including vulnerability to opportunistic partners upon whom the firm becomes dependent, muted efficiency...

Our knowledge-based society is pressing universities to transform from monastic scholarly enclaves into producers of new technologies and incubators of start-up firms. However, converting scientists’ curiosity-driven discoveries into commercially viable innovations has proven so difficult that...

While most academic research has considered authenticity from the consumer’s perspective this paper proposes and tests a new empirical operationalization of Beverland’s (2005) widely cited proposition that firm-side authenticity is “...partly true and partly rhetorical” (p. 1008). Our...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, innovation capacity, and firm performance in the creative industries context. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a survey‐based empirical analysis. Findings – Innovation...

Purpose – Very little is known about why, how and to what effect firms deviate from intended marketing plans. The aim of this paper is to extend the understanding of this phenomenon, post plan improvisation (PPI), and begin to identify and categorize such deviations along with their apparent...