Mapping and thematic analysis of cultural entrepreneurship research

Do cultural and creative entrepreneurs make affectively driven decisions? Not when they evaluate their opportunities

“…Despite the growing effort of research on cultural and creative entrepreneurship during the last two decades (Bürger & Volkmann, 2020), the literature has not yet addressed how entrepreneurs in the cultural and creative industries evaluate their opportunities and how they decide if these opportunities are viable for themselves compared with other alternatives to entrepreneurship.…”

“…Academic interest in cultural, creative and artistic work processes is not a recent phenomenon, but cultural and creative entrepreneurship has only become a specialized field of research in the last two decades (Bürger & Volkmann, 2020). This research field is still in a take‐off point (Bürger & Volkmann, 2020; McKelvey & Lassen, 2018), partly due to the heterogeneity of the different subsectors of the cultural and creative industries (Pellegrin‐Boucher & Roy, 2019). This heterogeneity has been approached through two main perspectives.…”

“…Despite the relevance of cultural and creative industries as a real source of wealth and value creation (Kohn & Wewel, 2018; Pellegrin‐Boucher & Roy, 2019) and its interest among scholars that dates back at least to the last half of the 19th century (Bürger & Volkmann, 2020; DiMaggio, 1982), cultural and creative entrepreneurship has only become a specialized field of research in the last two decades (Bürger & Volkmann, 2020). Although there has been an upward trend of academic interest devoted to cultural and creative entrepreneurship in the last years (McKelvey & Lassen, 2018), the literature has not yet addressed whether and how entrepreneurs in the cultural and creative industries differ from entrepreneurs in other industries regarding a key stage of the entrepreneurial process—opportunity evaluation.…”

Cultural entrepreneurship in times of change and crisis

“…Cultural entrepreneurship is a widely used term, but research to date has struggled to find a joint definition of the concept (Bürger and Volkmann 2020;Dobreva and Ivanov 2020;Hausmann and Heinze 2016). First introduced to describe "cultural capitalists", DiMaggio (1982) coined the term "cultural entrepreneurship" to capture how the Boston elite founded cultural institutions that cemented high culture in opposition to popular culture in the late nineteenth century.…”