Transformation in cultural industries The cultural industries have been considered unique and out of the mainstream not a subject for developing general theory and therefore relatively understudied by organizational scholars. We argue it is no longer the case that cultural industries are so uniquerepresenting small markets and industries of little matter to research in the sociology of organizations. Cultural industries are now one of the fastest growing and most vital sectors in the U.S. and global economies (U.S. Census Reports 2000). This growth is fueled in large part by the nature of the symbolic creative and knowledge based assets of cultural industries. In this volume the manuscripts recognize that the functions of the symbolic creative and knowledge based assets of cultural industries are also characteristic of the professional services and other industries as well. The manuscripts illustrate how the boundaries become blurred between cultural and other related industries that also rest upon the endeavors of and knowledge of creative workers. These dynamic interactions in the commercial landscape between the cultural professional services and other industries provide a richer context for the authors in this volume to examine changes in a specific market or industry and also to advance our understanding of the institutional transformation of organizations Aesthetics of television criticism : mapping critics reviews in an era of industry transformation Denise D. Bielby Molly Moloney Bob Q. Ngo Institutional logics and institutional change in organizations : transformation in accounting architecture and publishing Patricia H. Thornton Candace Jones Kenneth Kury Typecasting and generalism in firm and market : genre based career concentration in the feature film industry 1933 1995 Ezra W. Zuckerman The telecom industry as cultural industry : the transposition of fashion logics into the field of mobile telephony Marie Laure Djelic Antti Ainamo Charting gender : the success of female acts in the U.S. mainstream recording market 1940 1990 Timothy J. Dowd Kathleen Liddle Maureen Blyler Transformation in cultural industries Candace Jones Patricia H. Thornton