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The Paradox Between Individual Professionalization and Dependence on Social Contexts and Professional Scenes

Drafting Your Career in the Sectors of Creative Industries

Author : Bastian Lange

Published in: Entrepreneurship in Culture and Creative Industries

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This article aims to discuss attempts to achieve a professional career within the creative industries. The key question is: How do entrepreneurs in creative industries invent strategies to cope with the paradox between individual professionalization and dependence on social contexts and professional scenes. The paper refers to the striking moment in which the high proportion of factual micro-entrepreneurial professions emerged without direct governmental support. Since a few years, the status of entrepreneurs in the creative industries is associated by a highly ambiguous situation: the newly invented catchphrase “new entrepreneurship” alludes to individualized marketing strategies, self-promotion and social hardships on the one side, but also to skillful alternation between unemployment benefit, temporary jobs, self-employment structures and new temporary network coalitions on the other. Contributing to this discussion, I bring forward the argument that the conceptualization of the term “scene” helps to shed light on action logics by cultural entrepreneurs caught in rather paradoxical circumstances. I will demonstrate and compare the various kinds of entrepreneurial embeddedness and the respective structural paradoxes in two urban settings: Berlin and Leipzig).

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Metadata
Title
The Paradox Between Individual Professionalization and Dependence on Social Contexts and Professional Scenes
Author
Bastian Lange
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Entrepreneurship in Culture and Creative Industries

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-65505-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-65506-2

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65506-2_6