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A Case Study of Arteconomy – Building a bridge between art and enterprise: Belgian businesses stimulate creativity and innovation through art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2015

Herman van den Broeck
Affiliation:
Department Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Eva Cools
Affiliation:
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Gent, Belgium
Tine Maenhout
Affiliation:
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Gent, Belgium

Abstract

In a world where there has long since been more at play than functionality and cost price, we need creative innovation more than ever before. Organizations are trying to find ways to embed more creativity, more innovative potential, and more entrepreneurship into the everyday running of their businesses. They are constantly in search of effective ways to make their organization's culture better equipped for change. The Belgian non-profit organization Arteconomy has developed a method for doing this, by bringing business people and artists together in a series of particularly unique projects. In this paper, you can read about the philosophy that give rise to Arteconomy and the pioneering work that preceded it. The paper describes two specific projects that provide a concrete illustration of the arteconomy approach in two Belgian textile firms: ‘The Dragon of Deerlijk’ at Promo Fashion and ‘The Walk’ at Concordia Textiles. This paper is particularly relevant to illustrate change as an organizational process and to demonstrate how organizations can stimulate employees' creative skills.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 2008

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