Paper Info
Title
A Core/Periphery Perspective on Individual Creative Performance: Social Networks and Cinematic Achievements in the Hollywood Film Industry
Abstract
AbstractThe paper advances a relational perspective to studying creativity at the individual level. Building on social network theory and techniques, we examine the role of social networks in shaping individuals' ability to generate a creative outcome. More specifically, we argue that individuals who occupy an intermediate position between the core and the periphery of their social system are in a favorable position to achieve creative results. In addition, the benefits accrued through an individual's intermediate core/periphery position can also be observed at the team level, when the same individual works in a team whose members come from both ends of the core/periphery continuum. We situate the analysis and test our hypotheses within the context of the Hollywood motion picture industry, which we trace over the period 1992–2003. The theoretical implications of the results are discussed.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt this work, but you must attribute this work as “Organization Science. Copyright © 2017 INFORMS. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.0350, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.”
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1287/orsc.1070.0350
Periodicals
Keywords
Field
DocType
creative performance,social networks,core/periphery,film industry
Aesthetics,Social psychology,Social network,Public relations,Film industry,Sociology,Social system,Creativity,Hollywood
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
6
1526-5455
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
40
2.32
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gino Cattani1847.64
Simone Ferriani2402.66