This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link: Managing Creativity in the Cultural IndustriesPaul Jeffcutt, Centre for Creative Industry, QUB.Andy C Pratt, Department of Geography, LSE.This special issue brings together a series of contributions that are exploring a relatively new interdisciplinary space -the organisation and management of cultural industries i . This opening paper provides an introduction to and a consideration of that territory; it is divided into four main sections.We begin by outlining a conceptual position on creativity and management, and how we might define the cultural industries. Our objective here is to present creativity in a broad organizational field, much in the way that innovation has recently become discussed. Second, we examine the particularity of the cultural industries compared to other industries and how issues of management, organisation and governance are problematic, particularly given the nature of their transformation, or convergence. Third, we outline the broad intellectual space for understanding creativity in a knowledge economy, and indicate how this too presents challenges and opportunities. Finally, we review the dimensions of a significant new space for interdisciplinary research (and policy making) -the organisation and management of cultural industries. We conclude by considering emerging themes from this field and by introducing the contributions from the individual papers to this special issue.

Essentially, this paper argues that the understanding of organization is insepar able from the organization of understanding. This argument is developed and sustained through detailed consideration of the problematics of interpretation and of representation in organizational analysis, focusing on the understanding of significant problems within a particular arena of activity (organizational symbolism). Accordingly, from an analysis of forms of narrative in organizational symbolism, the paper articulates issues that are fundamental to both the theory and practice of organization. Through such a consideration of paradoxes of tex tuality in the inscription of order, current concerns in organizational analysis become connected to long-standing problems in Organization Studies.

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This article is concerned with examining the development of interest in organizational interpretation (exemplified by a decade of analyses of culture and symbolism in organization) as a rhetorical and philosophical episode in Organization Studies. The presumed 'productivity' of this recently developed arena of Organization Studies, for both the theory and practice of organization, is carefully considered through the discussion of a broad range of work from the past decade. This body of work is examined as a 'genre' of Organization Studies that both manifests particular issues for interpretation and articulates particular styles of representation.The article argues that the rise of interest in organizational interpretation represents a late-modern phase in Organization Studies, whereby traditional priorities and subordinations in the theory and practice of organization have been rewritten and renewed. In this way, organizational interpretation has come to articulate the most recent form of avant-garde activity in the continuing modernization of Organization Studies. In contrast, the article concludes with the consideration of a theory and practice for such work which would contribute to the articulation of a postmodern Organization Studies.

This paper addresses creativity in a broad organisational field of knowledge relationships and transactions in a cultural economy. In considering key issues and debates across this complex field, the paper concentrates on the generic problems of investigating, understanding and influencing this cultural economy. The paper locates its consideration of these knowledge relationships and transactions in a discussion of a pioneering in-depth study of the creative industries in a region of the United Kingdom. Significantly, this study found these creative industries to be inhabiting an ecosystem of creative space and also found that the development strategy for these industries needed to be ecological. The paper concludes with several key challenges for research and policy in the building of situated and strategic knowledge on cultural economies.