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Clown Scouting And Casting At The Cirque Du Soleil: Designing Boundary Practices For Talent Development And Knowledge Creation

In: The Role of Creativity in the Management of Innovation State of the Art and Future Research Outlook

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  • THIERRY GATEAU
  • LAURENT SIMON

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A significant part of management in creative organisations is the discovery, development, and engagement of the creative talents. These activities require practices at the intersection of talent management, knowledge management and HR management. In this paper, we observed a bootcamp held at Cirque du Soleil in order to experiment with new casting and training practices for a scarce and specific occupational creative community: clowns. Our study shows that this bootcamp provides context at the borders of distinct practices: recruitment, training, and exploration. This intermediary zone allows the emergence of a boundary practice: the co-construction of what actors of the organisation and members of the communities do, make and learn to connect, create and understand new meaning of their shared reality in performance and exploration. This concept contributes to an improved understanding of the management of scarce talents in knowledge-and-creativity intensive fields, as hi-tech industries, software development, engineering, or creative industries.

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  • Thierry Gateau & Laurent Simon, 2017. "Clown Scouting And Casting At The Cirque Du Soleil: Designing Boundary Practices For Talent Development And Knowledge Creation," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Alexander Brem & Rogelio Puente-Diaz & Marine AgoguĂ© (ed.), The Role of Creativity in the Management of Innovation State of the Art and Future Research Outlook, chapter 12, pages 239-269, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781786342010_0012
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    1. Atheer Abdullah Mohammed & Abdul Hafeez-Baig & Raj Gururajan, 2018. "Exploring Processes that are Used for Managing Knowledge in theHigher Education Environment: A Case Study in a Queensland Regional University," International Journal of Business and Economic Affairs (IJBEA), Sana N. Maswadeh, vol. 3(2), pages 73-90.

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