Jenny Lantz

Taste at Work
On Taste and Organization in the Field of Cultural Production

Jenny Lantz

A Ph.D. dissertation delving into a subject that has rarely, if ever, been studied: the role of taste in business. Author Jenny Lantz tackles the question of how the taste of employees in businesses that are involved in “cultural production,” like film, affects how the organization functions. Lantz studied an integrated film company in Sweden that encompasses everything from production to screening, and also DVD, VHS and cable television sales, trying to discern the impact of taste on the individuals and the organization itself, and trying to understand that impact, if possible, separately from the impact of gender. A substantial and complicated work bringing in influences from business theory, gender studies, popular culture and myriad other fields. In English, from Swedish business thinkers Fields of Flow.

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