Managing Creativity at Shanghai Tang

Shanghai Tang is a luxury brand that focuses on Chinese-inspired fashion, accessories, and home decoration products. In Fall 2008, amidst a growing global economic crisis, Raphael Ie Masne, executive chairman of Shanghai Tang, had to decide what to do with the recently vacant creative director posit...

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Main Authors: CHUA, Roy, ECCLES, Robert G.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-60482017-01-09T08:37:03Z Managing Creativity at Shanghai Tang CHUA, Roy ECCLES, Robert G. Shanghai Tang is a luxury brand that focuses on Chinese-inspired fashion, accessories, and home decoration products. In Fall 2008, amidst a growing global economic crisis, Raphael Ie Masne, executive chairman of Shanghai Tang, had to decide what to do with the recently vacant creative director position. Did Shanghai Tang need to hire a new creative director at this uncertain economic time? Or could he take on the role of the creative director himself? In addition, Ie Masne had to grapple with balancing the perennial tensions between business imperatives and the creative aspirations of his designers. How could he better manage employees who see themselves as artists? 2009-08-01T07:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5052 info:doi/HBS-410018 Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Organizational development Organizational culture China Asian Studies Fashion Business Human Resources Management
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider SMU Libraries
collection InK@SMU
language English
topic Organizational development
Organizational culture
China
Asian Studies
Fashion Business
Human Resources Management
spellingShingle Organizational development
Organizational culture
China
Asian Studies
Fashion Business
Human Resources Management
CHUA, Roy
ECCLES, Robert G.
Managing Creativity at Shanghai Tang
description Shanghai Tang is a luxury brand that focuses on Chinese-inspired fashion, accessories, and home decoration products. In Fall 2008, amidst a growing global economic crisis, Raphael Ie Masne, executive chairman of Shanghai Tang, had to decide what to do with the recently vacant creative director position. Did Shanghai Tang need to hire a new creative director at this uncertain economic time? Or could he take on the role of the creative director himself? In addition, Ie Masne had to grapple with balancing the perennial tensions between business imperatives and the creative aspirations of his designers. How could he better manage employees who see themselves as artists?
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author CHUA, Roy
ECCLES, Robert G.
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ECCLES, Robert G.
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title Managing Creativity at Shanghai Tang
title_short Managing Creativity at Shanghai Tang
title_full Managing Creativity at Shanghai Tang
title_fullStr Managing Creativity at Shanghai Tang
title_full_unstemmed Managing Creativity at Shanghai Tang
title_sort managing creativity at shanghai tang
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2009
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5052
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