Special Issue on „Culture Management” („Zarządzanie w Kulturze”) 27(1)/2026
Artistic Entrepreneurship

Editors:

• Dr Marta Materska-Samek, Jagiellonian University
• Dr Joanna Kotlarz, Jagiellonian University
• Dr Agnieszka Szostak, Jagiellonian University
• Dr Sylwia Wrona, Jagiellonian University

Background
In contemporary management, creativity and innovation play an increasingly significant role, enabling the fulfillment of needs across various domains and addressing increasingly complex problems. Viewing economic development through the lens of innovation and creativity allows for the integration of culture with all other aspects of economic life (Święcicki et al., 2023).

Entrepreneurship, understood as a set of traits and behaviors related to human conduct, is a manifestation of artistic and cultural activity. Along with creativity and innovation, it represents an immeasurable (soft) element of management, present in the cultural and creative industries sector both on a personal level (creators and artists) and an organizational level (Szostak, 2023; Ratalewska, 2014).

These sectors have recently been undergoing dynamic changes, including those associated with the so-called triple transformation (technological, climate, and social). Artistic entrepreneuring explores the power of art as entrepreneurial organizing, focusing on aesthetics, sites, and politics, with implications for entrepreneurship studies and research on the aesthetics and politics of organizing (Holm & Beyes, 2022). Arts entrepreneurship is also a management process that supports creativity and autonomy, promotes adaptability, and creates artistic, economic, and social value through innovative choices and risks (Chang & Wyszomirski, 2015).

Most contributions in the field of creativity and innovation management have relied on traditional research methodologies, including surveys, case studies, action research, and field or laboratory experiments. However, recent advancements have introduced new methods, tools, and paradigms that have the potential to significantly transform the landscape of creativity and innovation research.

The call for papers invites submissions employing diverse methodological or epistemological approach. We invite scholars, practitioners, and researchers to submit papers that explore the intersection of entrepreneurship, creativity, management and innovation within the cultural and creative industries. We seek papers that make a substantial contribution to the discourse on creativity and innovation management, and that align their contributions with the discipline. We accept publications that present the results of our own research, theoretical reviews, present new concepts or challenge existing ones.

Thematic scope:

• Entrepreneurship in culture and in the art.
•  Green and just transformation of CCSI.
• Role of culture in green and just transformation
• Decentralized architectures enhancing sustainability of CCSI.
• Re-industrialization through innovative strategies.
• Regenerative production modes.
• Building resilience through distributed networks.
• Harnessing collective intelligence for climate solutions.
• Co-agency in human and non-human collaborations.
• Crafting data narratives for impactful insights.
• Creativity as driver of modern value generation.
• Claiming co-ownership of the climate transition.
• Documenting impact and value in creative industries.
• Adopting circular aesthetics for sustainable progress.
• Importance of initiatives in culture, niche innovations in sustainability,
• New methods, tools, and paradigms

We also encourage you to visit the website of the PACESETTERS research project (www.pacesetters.eu), the implementation of which has inspired the scientific discussion presented here.

Submission deadline

Deadline for submission of articles in accordance with the standard for publication in “Management in Culture”: September 30, 2025.

Publication: 1st half of 2026

Papers must be sent to: czasopismo.zwk@uj.edu.pl 

Authors guideline: https://ojs.ejournals.eu/ZwK/about/submissions