Sub-theme 30: Crafting Values: How Craft Can Make Life a Little Better
Convenors:
Jo-Ellen Pozner, Santa Clara University, USA
Davide Ravasi, University College London, United Kingdom
Judith Nyfeler, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Session I: Thursday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 15
Craft Markets
Chair: Davide Ravasi
Suresh Bhagavatula, Nilam Kaushik and Rukmini Swaminathan
Creating
new markets in the crafts industry: The story of the handloom industry in India
Discussant(s): Merve Gül Barut
Merve Gül Barut, Filippo Carlo Wezel and Stefan Arora-Jonsson
Singulare tantum: Product meaning reconstruction through singularization
Discussant(s): Suresh Bhagavatula
Session II: Thursday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 15
Craft and Entrepreneurship
Chair: Judith Nyfeler
Belinda Zakrzewska, Michael B. Beverland and Pinar Cankurtaran
An assemblage perspective to craft-based entrepreneurial authenticity
Discussant(s): Jo-Ellen Pozner
Richael Connolly, Joe Bogue and Lana Repar
An exploration of craft mechanisms that impact how small businesses grow and develop for a post-growth era underpinned by
sustainability: A multi-case analysis of artisan food producers on farmers’ markets
Discussant(s): Belinda Zakrzewska
Jo-Ellen Pozner and Jennifer Woolley
To thine own craft be true? Engaging with paradox in bean-to-bar chocolate entrepreneurship
Discussant(s): Richael Connolly
Session III: Thursday, July 06, 14:00 to 15:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 15
Craft between Change and Tradition
Chair: Jo-Ellen Pozner
Robin Holt and Yutaka Yamauchi
The relation between ethics, tradition and the future in craft work: The case of Japanese Mingei
Discussant(s): Paola Trevisan
Paola Trevisan, Maria Lusiani and Luca Pareschi
Agreeing to disagree: Disputes and compromises in heritage crafts. The case of Venice gondolas
Discussant(s): Alessandro Gerosa
Alessandro Gerosa
The post-capitalist ethos of neo-craft entrepreneurs: Virtues and limits
Discussant(s): Robin Holt
Session IV: Friday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_CLA28
Craft and Social Evaluations
Chair: Judith Nyfeler
Dima Louis and Pauline Fatien
Crafting the fabric of an organizational identity in the luxury sector: Interweaving tensions through mediations
Discussant(s): Nathalie Louisgrand
Jeanette Ostertag
Tales of the good hunt - How fine hunting rifle manufactures engage in category work
Discussant(s): Dima Louis
Nathalie Louisgrand, Gazi Islam and Mark Thomas
Joining the “crème de la crème”: Competing for “One of the best Craftworkers of France” in the gastronomic field
Discussant(s): Jeanette Ostertag
Session V: Friday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_CLA28
Organizing Creative Craft Work
Chair: Jo-Ellen Pozner
Katrin M. Smolka and Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens
The value of resilience in craft workers: Evidence from country music songwriters in Nashville
Discussant(s): Judith Nyfeler
Judith Nyfeler
Infrastructures of craft-based production
Discussant(s): Andreea D. Gorbatai
Session VI: Friday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, Magistero – Centrale – Turing
Keeping Heritage Craft Alive
Chair: Davide Ravasi
Chiara Succi, Maral Muratbekova-Touron and Adelina Tordiglione
Duty to preserve beauty: Explaining the persistence of unique heritage craft in family business
Discussant(s): Monika Żebrowska
Jingjing Weng, Chi Huang, Li-Hsiang Yi and Wan-Jung Tsai
Changing and staying the same: The dynamic transition of craft logic using the case study of a handmade paper company
Discussant(s): Chiara Succi
Monika Żebrowska and Jochem Kroezen
Through heads, hearts, and hands: Investigating the process of cross-generational craft knowledge transfer
Discussant(s): Jingjing Weng
Session VII: Saturday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30,
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Session VIII: Saturday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, Magistero – Centrale – Turing
Craft, Community, and Emancipation
Chair: Judith Nyfeler
Jochem Kroezen
The turn to craft: Toward an alternative theory of work in advanced societies
Discussant(s): Alessandro Gandini
Mollie Painter-Morland, Daniel Hjorth and Marta Gasparin
Craft-based emancipatory entrepreneuring in the case of gender-based violence
Discussant(s): Jochem Kroezen
Alessandro Gandini, Gianmarco Peterlongo, Marta Tonetta and Gianmarco Peterlongo
Neo-craft work and the ‘good life’: Ethnographic insights from Italy
Discussant(s): Mollie Painter-Morland