How are creative industries weathering the crisis?

Propris, Lisa De

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“…; Moriset ). This has resulted in a geographic splintering of value chains and an increase in the numbers of self‐employed people and freelancers, especially during times of economic crisis (De Propris ; Christopherson ), and has given rise to the phenomenon of ‘lone eagles’, coined by Burgess () to describe entrepreneurs and freelancers, while Beyers and Lindhal () used the same term for one‐person proprietorships.…”

Section: The Rise Of Co‐working Spaces and Work Collectivesmentioning

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Socio‐economic profile and working conditions of freelancers in co‐working spaces and work collectives: evidence from the design sector in Greece

Avdikos

Kalogeresis

2016

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Third places, such as business incubators, co‐working spaces and work collectives, represent a new ecosystem of collaborative working practices in the creative economy that alters significantly the spatial distribution of work and the notion of ‘workplace’. Collaborative workplaces emerged after the gradual collapse of the stable employment paradigm that was one of the main features of the Keynesian welfare state and as a response to precarious working conditions that were augmented during the recent economic crisis and the subsequent recession. The paper contributes to the critical understanding of these new geographies of workplace and working conditions that third places manifest. Using data from a large survey about the economics and the working conditions of Greek designers and from four interviews with freelancers in work collectives and facilitators of co‐working spaces, the paper sheds light on the socio‐economic profile and the working conditions of Greek freelance designers that use co‐working spaces and work collectives as means of reducing precarious working conditions and personal–professional risks. The results show that designers in third places, in contrast to freelancers who use formal workplaces or work from home, work long hours with poor pay and a large proportion have no safety net with regard to social security. Third places can be enclaves of the shadow economy and of very specific precarious working conditions. On the other hand, third places help freelance designers become more embedded to business networks, both local and foreign, rather than working in isolation. Networking effects between freelancers and self‐employed who choose to work in third places usually result in greater opportunities for outsourcing and subcontracting and in more exports.

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Socio‐economic profile and working conditions of freelancers in co‐working spaces and work collectives: evidence from the design sector in Greece

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Kalogeresis

2016

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“…This is despite the fact that it remains a contested concept and area of economic activity in terms of definitional issues (Taylor 2007;Townley, Beech, and McKinlay 2009;Cooke and De Propris 2011;Chapain, Clifton, and Comunian 2013) and critique of its broader neo-liberal underpinnings (Garnham 2005;Waitt 2006), as well as a tendency to focus on capital cities or aggregations of data sets (Peck 2005;Waitt 2006). Nevertheless, governments increasingly look towards creative industries for economic growth, amid declines in other traditional sectors such as manufacturing (Richards and Raymond 2000;Bakhshi and McVittie 2009;Alvarez 2010) and in response to the global financial crisis (M€ uller, Rammer, and Truby 2009;Calver, Gold, and Stewart 2013;De Propris 2013).…”

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Building the northern Australia vision through creative industries: the case of Cairns in far north Queensland

Daniel

2014

Creative Industries Journal

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“…The determinant LGS is measured as local government subsidies on creative sectors, while the variable LGE is defined as local government expenditure on creative sectors. It has been suggested that the development of creative industries is quite sensitive to public policy (De Propris, ; Scott, ; Yusuf & Nabeshima, ). Industries policy, whether supported by central or local government, can impact on industrial development, particularly in the transitional economies, from labor driven to innovation driven, in China.…”

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“…Several contributions have empirically captured the externalities of creative industries agglomeration (CIA) on regional innovation, employment, and economic growth (Andersen, Hansen, Isaksen, & Raunio, ; De Propris, ; Florida, Mellander, & Stolarick, ; Hong, Yu, Guo, & Zhao, ), but little attention has been devoted to the effect of CIA on industrial efficiency. Existing studies theoretically and empirically support the notion that agglomeration in manufacturing can produce the scale economics and externalities, consequently increasing firm‐level and regional‐level efficiency (Andersson & Lööf, ; Cainelli, Ganau, & Iacobucci, ), but it has not yet been empirically supported whether the efficiency effect happens in the context of CIA.…”

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Creative industries agglomeration and industrial efficiency in China

2018

Growth and Change

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In this paper, we seek to explore the agglomeration externalities of creative industries impacting on industrial efficiency, both at the regional level and at the sector level. Firstly, we apply a data envelopment analysis model to compute the efficiency scores of creative industries in China. The result shows that China's industrial efficiency whether in different provinces or different creative sectors is characterized by huge disparities. Secondly, using the data from China's 31 provinces and 50 creative sectors during the period of 2004–2014, we empirically explore whether and how the development of creative industries agglomeration impact on industrial efficiency, where the agglomeration is distinguished between regional specialization, geographical concentration, and industrial concentration. We find that the three types of agglomeration externalities all play important roles in increasing productive efficiency in creative industries. The study also confirms that industrial efficiency is more likely to be increased by attracting much smaller firms concentrating in a given area, while this effect is mixed in a given creative sector.

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How are creative industries weathering the crisis?

Cited by 60 publications

References 4 publications

Socio‐economic profile and working conditions of freelancers in co‐working spaces and work collectives: evidence from the design sector in Greece

Socio‐economic profile and working conditions of freelancers in co‐working spaces and work collectives: evidence from the design sector in Greece

Building the northern Australia vision through creative industries: the case of Cairns in far north Queensland

Creative industries agglomeration and industrial efficiency in China

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