Animated Times: Critical Transitions and the Maintenance of Field-Configuring Events

Bernard Leca, Charles-Clemens Rüling () and Dominique Puthod ()
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Bernard Leca: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Charles-Clemens Rüling: MC - Management et Comportement - EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management
Dominique Puthod: IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc

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Abstract: Recent research has pointed to the challenge facing recurrent field-configuring events (FCEs) in trying to remain dominant in their fields over sustained periods. Based on a revelatory historical case study of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the leading FCE in its field, this paper explores how a fieldconfiguring role can be maintained over time. We focus specifically on the FCE organization, and highlight the importance of critical transitions, relatively short periods of time when fundamental changes were made to its formal and informal governance rules, which redefined the event's identity and scope, and thus ensured it remained the dominant event for field participants. In terms of the organizational dynamics facilitating critical transitions, we emphasize the importance of conflict as a driver of change, as well as the particular role of local stakeholders in renewing FCEs that are organized recurrently in the same location.

Keywords: Field-configuring events; critical transitions; conflict; local embeddedness; heterarchy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in Industry and Innovation, 2015, 22 (3), pp.173-192. ⟨10.1080/13662716.2015.1033839⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2015.1033839

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