Cultures at work: Why 'culture' matters in research on the 'cultural' industries

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Moral Economy and Cultural Work (2006, background): “As Gibson (2003) notes in a study of Australian music scenes, musicians often accept low pay, poor conditions and an uncertain future as an unfortunate but necessary side effect for the chance to ‘make it’.”
Cultural economy: a critical review (2005, background): “Record companies, for instance, no longer perceive themselves as firms who release music, but instead describe themselves as traders in copyright material (see Connell and Gibson, 2003).”
Looking for work in creative industries policy (2009, background): “Creative workers, then, often appear fatalistic in their acceptance of individualized work conditions (Gibson 2003, Saundry et al. 2007).”
The cultural and creative industries: a review of the literature (2007, background): “Cultural industries then have to be understood as embedded cultural and business activities (Gibson, 2003); and they have to negotiate some rather difficult tensions of culture and economics and personal and professional life which mainstream business theory and practice have found difficult to unde”