Barcode	Locations	Status
Barcode: 01155297	Locations: 2.4.10 TRA	Status: available

Why do professionals keep attending face-to-face industry gatherings when digitization offers cheap, fast and time-saving technological solutions for professional interactions? This book sets out to explain such a phenomenon by analysing the reasons why professionals go to professional events, the role of events on individual careers and the way events can be instrumental in structuring emerging professions and (re)affirming stable, shared professional identities. Showcasing original research on the role of events in the structuration of careers and professions, this book focuses on professional events as a lens to analyse the transformations of professional worlds. It highlights the explanatory effect of career stage on event participation and use and the way events craft sociability to strengthen professions and careers. Different economic sectors are explored including new business lines, such as transmedia, Fab Labs and TV show and globalizing sectors, such as, business representation, fine dining and international trade exhibitions. Mature economic sectors such as craft fairs, film festivals and the events sector itself are also analysed. Providing an empirical and multidisciplinary approach to professional events and a diversity of case studies, this book will be an ideal read for sociologists interested in business, human resources and organization.

 

Contents:

 

1 Introduction: the role of professional events in structuring

careers and professions 1

Sidonie Naulin and Anne-Sophie Béliard

 

PART I THE EMERGENCE OF AN OCCUPATIONAL

COMMUNITY

2 Festival sociability and professional careers: the role of TV

festivals in structuring the series scriptwriting profession 21

Anne-Sophie Béliard

3 Fab City Summit: structuring makerspace collectives

around event preparations 41

Flavie Genatio

4 Wedding business events: career tool and emerging market

sustainability solution 60

Tatiana Rubtcova

5 Failing to configure? The life and death of Forum Blanc 81

Romain Gandia and Charles-Clemens Ru¨ling

 

PART II THE PERPETUATION OF AN

OCCUPATIONAL COMMUNITY

6 From small craft fair to international interior design trade

show: how Maison&Objet structured fine crafts in France

(1949–2021) 104

Anne Jourdain

7 Place your bets, all bets are off! Film festivals as devices

for the construction and management of uncertainty for

distributors and arthouse cinemas 123

Olivier Zerbib

8 “Not working … networking!” Scripting and shaping

conviviality in trade events 140

Victor Potier

 

PART III THE TRANSNATIONALIZATION OF

A PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY

9 International trade before globalization: the invention of

international trade shows in France in the 1960s 158

Romain Lecler

10 B8, B7 and B20 summits as professional events: business

as usual or new opportunities for business organizations? 179

Marieke Louis

11 The role of professional gatherings in the globalization of

a professional space: the example of international food festivals 199

Sidonie Naulin

12 Afterword: Covid-19 and the digital quarantine of

event-based sociabilities 217

Victor Potier

 

Index