Culture Innovation and Entrepreneurship

<p>Even though the study of innovation and entrepreneurship is a diverse multi-disciplinary endeavour the role of culture is often neglected or under-emphasized. Building on the cultural turn that has swept across the social sciences and humanities over the past couple of decades <i>Culture Innovation and Entrepreneurship</i> provides cutting-edge theoretical and empirical insights about how culture shapes innovation and entrepreneurship. It features novel contributions that enhance our understanding about a variety of important theoretical issues related to symbolic management framing legitimacy optimal distinctiveness institutional logics and the dynamics of cultural entrepreneurship in and across organizations. </p><p>This book<i> </i>also addresses a diverse range of topics such as the design of craft goods the creation of the Guggenheim museum entrepreneurial ecosystems open innovation crowdfunding the mafia and grand challenges. The chapters in this volume will be of interest to a diverse array of scholars from those interested in entrepreneurship and innovation to cultural studies contemporary social theory organization studies and management. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal <i>Innovation: Organization and Management</i>.</p>