This thesis explores the circumstances for organizing art and business from two ends of an art engagement. The two settings explored are populated by, on one hand, the professional visual artist, who is also a business owner, and on the other hand, the business family, for whom an art collecting engagement becomes part of their organizing interests. Each has a base in organizing one domain (art or business) but continuously learn to organize the other domain as a dynamic evolving process. This process occurs in relation to the interdependencies of art, business, and family stakeholders, the recognition and navigation of individual and shared aims and resources, all in a societal context where art and culture have become increasingly economized.
Without relapsing to old dichotomies that focus too narrowly on sales and market logics for artists’ business engagements or consumption and strategic business outcomes in the case of the business family setting, this thesis contributes to our understanding of art in business settings. Therefore, it extends the more researched spheres of how art can be instrumental for business by focusing on what organizing and business can do for art and artists.
Through three papers with different theoretical lenses and frameworks, this thesis explores how art and business, separated in boundary terms, may be intertwined when organized. The first paper explores artists’ views on their organizing activities of managing art and business administration as a necessity in an increasingly professionalized and market-driven sector. The second paper studies business families’ modes of engaging with art collecting that may lead to unintentional or intentional interest-based legacy building. The third study shows how the formation of an art-related family boundary organization may facilitate transgenerational entrepreneurship when next generation family members develop art-related roles, sometimes taking the art engagement in new directions.
- Organizing Art and Business Activities: Balancing Boundaries of Individual and Shared Engagements
- Jennie Lorisson - Stockholm School of Economics, Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology (House of Innovation)
- Stockholm School of Economics; Doctor of Philosophy (PHD)
- Doctor of Philosophy (PHD), Stockholm School of Economics
- Stockholm School of Economics
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- 9789177313991; 9789177314004
- Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology (House of Innovation)
- English
- Dissertation