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 …

How do firms adapt? There are two basic starting points from which to answer that question.
One is premised on ideas of rational choice and intentionality, while the other is a process of …

Creativity is the intentional combination of symbols, ideas, or objects in a way that is
unexpected for a given audience. While creativity is a process, innovation is the outcome of …

Using ethnographic, experimental, and survey data from a handicraft cluster in southern
India, this paper reports on a study of when and why people who identify with their work …

The structural holes to which a person is connected are embedded in a broader
organization or market. High status in the broader context signals a reputation that can make …

Despite population opinion in China favoring men over women, data on a large probability
sample of Chinese entrepreneurs show that men and women—on average—build similar …

We extend Becker's conception of art worlds to articulate the boundaries which enable and
constrain innovation in art. Synthesizing network and institutional approaches to art …

Research on the relationship between categorical unconventionality and popularity has
produced mixed results. While many accounts suggest that unconventionality is penalized …

How does art influence the status of the artists that make it? Sociologists argue that the
shared use of artistic conventions produces status arrays, but we have not subjected this …

People in the early stages of their careers often face a trade-off between cultivating a closed
network that helps them secure the resources they need to survive or developing an open …