2015
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Bernard Leca et al., « Animated Times: Critical Transitions and the Maintenance of Field-Configuring Events », HAL-SHS : l'archive ouverte pour les sciences humaines et sociales, ID : 10.1080/13662716.2015.1033839
Recent research has pointed to the challenge facing recurrent field-configuring events (FCEs)in trying to remain dominant in their fields over sustained periods. Based on a revelatory historical case studyof the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the leading FCE in its field, this paper explores how a fieldconfiguringrole can be maintained over time. We focus specifically on the FCE organization, and highlight theimportance of critical transitions, relatively short periods of time when fundamental changes were made to itsformal and informal governance rules, which redefined the event’s identity and scope, and thus ensured itremained the dominant event for field participants. In terms of the organizational dynamics facilitating criticaltransitions, we emphasize the importance of conflict as a driver of change, as well as the particular role of localstakeholders in renewing FCEs that are organized recurrently in the same location.