meiea 2013 - entrepreneurship and character traits
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Ben O’Hara
EntrepreneurshipCharacter TraitsEducation and Training
Box Hill Institute - Melbourne
Entrepreneurship
• People
• Process
• Place
Creative Entrepreneurship
• People
• Process
• Place
Music Industry
• People
• Process
• Place
Artist manager Glenn
Wheatley (manager of John
Farnham and The Little River
Band)
GLENN WHEATLEY: You can't go to school to
learn about this thing. You can go and get a PhD
in mathematics or business management and get
all that but the music business is actually
governed by people that have, live by their gut
feel...
Bob Lefsetz, The Lefsetz
Letter
Music Business School Sucks! Bob Lefsetz at Canadian Music Week 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6YaarbMacw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6YaarbMacw
Timmons Model of Entrepreneurship
Characteristics:
Commitment and Determination
Courage
Leadership
Opportunity ObsessionTolerance of Risk, Ambiguity, and Uncertainty
Creativity, Self-reliance, and Ability to Adapt
Motivation to Excel
Source: Adapted from Timmons and Spinelli (2009 p. 47)
Hisrich Central Themes
Desirability of starting a a venture
Possibility of starting the venture
Childhood and Family Environment – history of
independence
Education (both formal and informal)
Personal Values (Winners)
Age (Early to mid-30’s)
Work History
Motivation
Role Models and support networks
• Dream
• Decisiveness
• Doers
• Determination
• Dedication
The 10 Ds
• Devotion
• Details
• Destiny
• Dollars
• Distribute
(Bygrave & Zacharakis 2004)
Chell 2008
Entrepreneurship
• People
• Process
• Place
Creative Entrepreneurship
• People
• Process
• Place
Music Industry
• People
• Process
• Place
Miles Copland(Manager –
Sting & The Police)
Apted, M. (1985). Sting - Bring on the night. USA, Samuel Goldwyn Company: 97
minutes.
The Svengali or Carnie
Barker, H. and Y Taylor. (2007). Faking it. London, Faber and Faber.
Mad Men
Peterson and Berger. (1971).
"Entrepreneurship in
Organizations: Evidence
from the Popular Music
Industry " Administrative
Science Quarterly 16 (1).
“In the recording industry,
environmental turbulence
leads to the emergence of
entrepreneurship. It is
possible, however, that
entrepreneurship might be
exercised in anticipation of
turbulence.”
The Hustler
Doyle, P. (2001). "The Tough Sell:
Narrating the Artist-Hustler
Relationship." Musicology Australia.
33(2): 165 -173.
The Aggrandizer
Wilson and Stokes, (2005). "Managing creativity and innovation. The challenge for cultural entrepreneurs." Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 12(3): 366-378.
The Enabler
McIntyre, P. (2011). "Systemic Creativity: The Partnership of
John Lennon and Paul McCartney." Musicology Australia 33(2):
241-254.
McIntyre, P. (2001). The Contemporary Western Popular Music
Industry as “Field”. Musical In-Between-ness, University of
Technology, Sydney, The International Association for the
Study of Popular Music.
The Creative Artist Manager
‘building, developing and nurturing the relationships that
form a system, art world or field that generates artistic
products’
Morrow, G. (2006). Managerial Creativity. Division of Humanities,
Department of Contempoary Music Studies. Sydney, Macquarie.
Doctor of Philosophy.
