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Title [sv]
Kampen om kulturen. En studie av kulturpolitisk förändring i Litauen och Sverige
Title [en]
The struggle for culture. A study of the culture of political change in Lithuania and Sweden
Abstract [en]
Cultural policy has traditionally emphasized ideas about education and refinement, equality, and democracy; and of culture as a means to instill these values in citizens. While economic considerations have always been important realities for cultural operators, these concerns have mostly been treated as subordinate. Today, this is no longer the case. Ideas about profit and loss, and economic accounting, permeate all organizations in the cultural field, and lately the political discussions have come to centre on cultural policy as an instrument for economic growth and innovation within the “creative industry”. A pronounced ideational shift has taken place in the perception of the role of culture and the mission of cultural policy. It is this shift that we wish to understand and explain. In order to comprehend various aspects of the described changes, two different dimensions of the cultural field will be studied: a) how the ideational changes have entered, and been handled within, cultural policy; b) what happens when the ideas of profit and management meet organizational practice. Here, two aspects will be investigated: the emergence of new university educations and professions as a response to new ideas; and what happens when the new ideas meet the practice of existing cultural organizations (museums, theatres, art galleries e t c). We will study the various aspects of change in two different national contexts with very dissimilar historical trajectories – Lithuania and Sweden – in order to discern similarities and differences in relation to ideational emergence and impact on both policy and practice. The project aims to contribute to theories of institutional change by emphasizing and exploring the existence of conflicts and dependencies within institutional fields. The study’s main contribution lies in its explaining, firstly, how new ideas in a field are reshaped in practice (the issue of translation); secondly, what possibilities for the molding of new ideas are created by the individuals and organizations concerned (the issue of institutional entrepreneurship); and, thirdly, how conflicts between established and new, challenging ideas are handled (the issues of power and continuous power struggles).
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Svensson, J., Tomson, K. & Rindzeviciute, E. (2017). Policy change as institutional work: Introducing cultural and creative industries into cultural policy. Qualitative research in organization and management, 12(2), 149-168
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Policy change as institutional work: Introducing cultural and creative industries into cultural policy
2017 (English)In: Qualitative research in organization and management, ISSN 1746-5648, E-ISSN 1746-5656, Vol. 12, no 2, p. 149-168Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Purpose: Policy change is frequently framed as resulting from governmental strategy based on explicit preferences, rational decision making and consecutive and aligned implementation. The purpose of this paper is to explore the theoretical perspective of institutional work as an alternative approach to understanding policy change, and investigates the construction of resources needed to perform such work.

Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on a case study of the process wherein the idea of cultural and creative industries was introduced into Lithuanian cultural policy. The main data generating methods are document studies and qualitative interviews.

Findings: The analysis demonstrates the ways in which the resources needed to perform institutional work are created through the enactment of practice, and through the application of resourcing techniques. Three such techniques are identified in the empirical material: the application of experiences from other fields of practice, the elicitation of external support, and the borrowing of legitimacy.

Originality/value: The study offers an alternative approach to studies of policy change by demonstrating the value of institutional work in such change. Further, it contributes to the literature on institutional work by highlighting how instances of such work, drawing on a distributed agency, interlink and connect to each other in a process to produce policy change. Finally, it proposes three interrelated resourcing techniques underlying institutional work.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2017
Keywords
Policy change, Institutional work, Cultural and creative industries, Resourcing
National Category
Economics and Business
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32769 (URN)10.1108/QROM-05-2016-1380 (DOI)000402936500004 ()2-s2.0-85037650616 (Scopus ID)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, A011-2010
Available from: 2017-06-12 Created: 2017-06-12 Last updated: 2022-07-06Bibliographically approved
Svensson, J. & Tomson, K. (Eds.). (2016). Kampen om kulturen: Idéer och förändring på det kulturpolitiska fältet (1ed.). Lund
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kampen om kulturen: Idéer och förändring på det kulturpolitiska fältet
2016 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: , 2016. p. 318 Edition: 1
National Category
Social Sciences
Research subject
Politics, Economy and the Organization of Society; Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31305 (URN)978-91-44-11105-6 (ISBN)
Available from: 2016-12-06 Created: 2016-12-06 Last updated: 2020-07-09Bibliographically approved
Rindzevičiūtė, E., Svensson, J. & Tomson, K. (2016). The international transfer of creative industries as a policy idea. The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 22(4), 594-610
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The international transfer of creative industries as a policy idea
2016 (English)In: The International Journal of Cultural Policy, ISSN 1028-6632, E-ISSN 1477-2833, Vol. 22, no 4, p. 594-610Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article examines the transfer of creative industries as a policy idea to Lithuania. Tracing the stages of the transfer and analysing its consequences in the local cultural policy field, this paper argues for the importance of studying cultural policy process. The findings reveal that the process of the international transfer of creative industries mattered, because it generated wider transformations in cultural policy field by having ambiguous effects on local power relations. The policy idea of creative industries opened the cultural policy field to new actors. As a result, competition for scarce state funding increased, but cultural organisations gained access to the European Union structural funds. In all, creative industries as a policy idea significantly transformed Lithuanian state cultural policy, in that it led to a reassessment of both the practices and identities of cultural organisations.

Keywords
creative industries, policy transfer, the British Council, translation
National Category
Business Administration
Research subject
Politics, Economy and the Organization of Society; Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26804 (URN)10.1080/10286632.2015.1025067 (DOI)000381410700007 ()2-s2.0-84925430998 (Scopus ID)1338/42/2010 (Local ID)1338/42/2010 (Archive number)1338/42/2010 (OAI)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 1338/42/2010
Available from: 2015-04-07 Created: 2015-04-07 Last updated: 2020-07-09Bibliographically approved
Rindzeviciute, E., Svensson, J. & Tomson, K. (2013). Cultural policy in translation?: The concept of creative industries travels to Lithuania. In: On conference website: . Paper presented at 6th Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research,Copenhagen, August 14-16, 2013..
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Cultural policy in translation?: The concept of creative industries travels to Lithuania
2013 (English)In: On conference website, 2013Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
National Category
Public Administration Studies Business Administration
Research subject
Politics, Economy and the Organization of Society; Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21526 (URN)1338/42/2010 (Local ID)1338/42/2010 (Archive number)1338/42/2010 (OAI)
Conference
6th Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research,Copenhagen, August 14-16, 2013.
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, A011-2010
Available from: 2014-01-24 Created: 2014-01-24 Last updated: 2025-02-21Bibliographically approved
Principal InvestigatorSvensson, Jenny
Co-InvestigatorKöping, Ann-Sofie
Co-InvestigatorTomson, Klara
Co-InvestigatorRindzevičiūtė, Egle
Coordinating organisation
Södertörn University
Funder
Period
2011-01-01 - 2013-12-31
Keywords [sv]
Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning
Keywords [en]
Baltic and East European studies
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:1735Project, id: A011-2010_OSS

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