The Cultural and Creative Industries Track aims to provide a forum in which those researching industries in the cultural and creative sectors from various perspectives and disciplines can meet to exchange the findings of their research and become informed of developments in this area of research. The track is designed in order to encourage cross-disciplinary research into the cultural and creative industries.

Papers or symposia are invited addressing the following themes:

Managing cultural consumption;
Managing work and workers in the cultural and creative industries;
Cultural Work and Production;
Cultural Consumption Marketing and the creative and cultural industries;
Clustering and social inclusion;
Cultural industries and technology;
Cultural policy;
The economics of culture;
The value of the cultural industries;
The impact of globalization on the creative and cultural industries;
Managing creativity;
Innovation and change in the cultural and creative industries;
Understanding culture and the arts;
Technology and the cultural industries;
The role of creativity in the cultural sector;
The art/ commerce divide;
Enterprise culture and the creative industries;
Cultural organisation and informal learning;
Social networking and the creative industry.
Papers may be empirical or theoretical and we welcome a range of methodological approaches. We especially welcome papers or symposia proposals that are situated within the creative and cultural industries but have synergy with other tracks as special collaborative sessions will be planned with this in mind.

At past BAM Conferences the track CCI has co-organised symposia and workshop sessions with other tracks like Gender in Management, E-Government and E-Business and Identity. The track co-chairs hope to organise again such joint sessions with other BAM tracks in 2009.

Please note that papers that are concerned with the role of culture or organisational culture (unless in a relevant cultural/creative enterprise) are not suitable for this track.