Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries
About the Book Series
This series brings together book-length original research in cultural and creative industries from a range of perspectives. Charting developments in contemporary cultural and creative industries thinking around the world, the series aims to shape the research agenda to reflect the expanding significance of the creative sector in a globalised world.
Innovative Cultural Tourism in European Peripheries
1st Edition
Edited
By Karol Jan Borowiecki, Antonella Fresa, José María Martín Civantos
July 20, 2026
Cultural tourism can play an important role in social and territorial cohesion. Focusing on European peripheral regions, this book illuminates the importance of local communities in heritage management for sustainable development. This book provides insights into the use of innovative business ...
Publishing as a Creative Industry
1st Edition
By Stevie Marsden
July 20, 2026
Book publishing is big business, contributing significant employment in the creative industries and adding billions to the global economy. Despite this, the sector is often overlooked in the creative industries' research tide. This book remedies this gap in knowledge, providing an examination of ...
Creative Industries Development Policy: Critical, Global and Institutional Perspectives
1st Edition
By Leandro Valiati
July 14, 2026
The promise of Cultural and Creative Industries as a development pathway has spread with remarkable speed and, too often, with insufficient scrutiny. Through detailed analysis of policy experiments across diverse contexts, this book challenges the often-celebratory narratives around creative ...
Global Art Markets: History and Current Trends
1st Edition
Edited
By Iain Robertson, Derrick Chong, Luís U. Afonso
June 22, 2026
The art market is worth billions globally, despite the effects of the Covid-19 health pandemic. This book brings together a strong cast of contributors to explore contemporary and historical themes. Readers of the book will gain awareness of how historical foundations of arts markets continue to ...
Artists Incorporated: Corporate Collaborations with Artists and their Impact on Business
1st Edition
By Thomas Blonski
June 17, 2026
Taking an exhaustive look at the changing relationship between artists and business organisations, this book demonstrates how artists are no longer confined to the art market. Recent developments in art, artistic work and management have fostered an unprecedented convergence between artists and ...
Business Model Innovation in Creative and Cultural Industries
1st Edition
Edited
By Pierre Roy, Estelle Pellegrin-Boucher
May 22, 2026
Business model innovation occurs when an organization discovers a new way of creating revenues or profits via its products or services. This book examines the concept as it applies across the creative and cultural industries in practice. This book examines market, social and political environments ...
Cultural Politics of the Creative Industries
1st Edition
By Phil Graham
May 22, 2026
This book presents the creative industries as a suite of practices intimately connected to political, economic, and cultural power. Seeking to illuminate the creative industries through critical cultural analysis it shows the extent to which creative labour shapes our shared cultural and ...
Pop Culture Marketing in the Publishing Industry: "Good Luck, Babe!"
1st Edition
By Miriam J. Johnson
April 29, 2026
This comprehensive study examines how UK publishers leverage pop culture across TikTok and Instagram, analysing over 1,000 posts from 16 publishers during 12 months. The research demonstrates how pop culture functions as a powerful distribution mechanism within the attention economy, ...
Global Creative and Cultural Industries Policy: Opportunities, Challenges and Implications
1st Edition
By Tarek E. Virani
April 24, 2026
Examining the global creative and cultural industries (CCIs), this book seeks to help readers understand key policy challenges faced by the sector. It reveals a key contradiction: while the sector is praised for flexibility and innovation, it suffers from job insecurity and unequal value ...
Creative and Cultural Work in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Miikka Pyykkönen, David Wright
March 25, 2026
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, popular music, the platform economy, and film. The creative economy has been lauded by national and regional ...
The Economics of Libraries
1st Edition
By Marco Ferdinando Martorana, Ilde Rizzo
January 30, 2026
Libraries are included in the widely accepted definition of Cultural and Creative Industries, together with heritage, performing arts, museums, visual arts, and archives, and they play an important role in the creative value chain. The Economics of Libraries highlights the economic importance ...
NFTs, Creativity and the Law: Within and Beyond Copyright
1st Edition
Edited
By Enrico Bonadio, Caterina Sganga
December 26, 2025
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have emerged as an important medium for the creation, sale and collection of art, with many major business and fashion houses creating their own NFT projects. This book investigates the eruption of NFT crypto art, and its impact on copyright law. Chapters address topics ...