This paper offers a systematic review of the literature on organizational categories and
categorization published in the last 14 years (1999–2012). After identifying a core of roughly …

This review integrates diverse characterizations of creativity from a sociological perspective
with the goal of reinvigorating discussion of the sociology of creativity. We start by exploring …

Federal agencies and universities in the US promote interdisciplinary research because it
presumably spurs transformative, innovative science. Using data on almost 900 research …

In this article, we propose a new explanation for why certain cultural products outperform
their peers to achieve widespread success. We argue that products' position in feature …

Innovations accompanying transitions often prompt institutional change if they do not match
with existing institutions. Transition studies started to incorporate institutional dynamics into …

In structural analyses of innovation, one substantive question looms large: What makes
radical innovation possible if peripheral actors are more likely to originate radical ideas but …

Creative industries are among the fastest-growing and most important sectors of European
and North American economies. Their growth depends on continuous innovation, which is …

Social movement researchers argue that tactical innovation occurs as a response to
changes external to movements, such as police repression and shifts in political authority, or …

We offer a new measure for social isolation for contemporary society, where opportunities for
making connections with others have become ubiquitous. We develop this measure after …

This is an account on peripherality, dissociation, and outsiders. It is, however, not a story
about a marginal backwater region whose fate is sealed by geography and history; and it …