Yvan PETIT 2012 Book review : Gino CATTANI , Simone FERRIANI

Insiders, Outsiders, and the Struggle for Consecration in Cultural Fields: A Core- Periphery Perspective

Building on recent research emphasizing how legitimacy depends on consensus among audiences about candidates’ characteristics and activities, we examine the relationship between cultural producers’ (candidates) position in the social structure and the consecration of their creative work by relevant audiences. We argue that the outcome of this process of evaluation in any cultural field, whether...

A Core/Periphery Perspective on Individual Creative Performance: Social Networks and Cinematic Achievements in the Hollywood Film Industry

The 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 favo...

A Core / Periphery Perspective on Individual Creative Performance

Acknowledgements The authors contributed equally. We gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from the EU Marie-Curie Intra European Fellowship Scheme (grant nr MEIF-CT-2005-011465), the IPGC (Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge), the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at Wharton School, and the Stern School of Business (NYU). We are especially grateful to Paul Allison and Dean...

Reply to Dew’s (2007) commentary: “Pre-adaptation, exaptation and technology speciation: a comment on Cattani (2006)”

This article responds to the critique by Nicholas Dew (2007) on an earlier article by Cattani (2006) which suggested that Cattani’s use of the term “pre-adaptation” should be replaced by an alternative term “exaptation.” The article responds to that suggestion and attempts to redirect discussion toward the evolutionary significance of pre-adaptation within the context of technology, a task cent...

Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Heterogeneity in Founding Patterns