Dr. Candace Jones

Biography

Candace Jones holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Utah, focusing on the film industry with a dissertation titled 'Toward Understanding Theory Network Organizations'. She also has a Master's in Human Resource Management from the University of Utah and graduated Cum Laude from Smith College with a specialization in political theory. Jones served as the Division Chair for the Organization Management Theory Division at the Academy of Management from 2011 to 2016 and has organized and co-convened the Creative Industries subtheme at the European Group Organization Studies from 2002 to 2016. In 2014, she was awarded a grant of $797,529 by the Danish Council for Independent Research for a study on 'The Impact Material Artifacts Visual Representations Institutionalization Innovations'. Her research interests encompass creative industries, professional services, networks, vocabularies, institutional logics, and materiality. She has published extensively on creative industries, including sectors such as film and music, in top journals including the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. In 2015, she co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries.

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