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 …

This article argues that analysts should examine how individuals perceive and construct
value in order to understand persistent forms of inequality. Drawing on years of …

This article explores private art museums' role for elite legitimization processes. Based on
interviews with founders, directors, and curators of Germany-based private museums, I …

What determines the price of an artwork? This article leverages a comprehensive and novel
dataset on art auctions of contemporary artists to examine the impact of social and visual …

This article examines how creative industry workers engage with diversity, absent a formal
organizational mandate to do so. Through in-depth interviews with independent music …

Across various markets, consumers rely on brokers to help them select goods. How do
brokers shape consumers' valuation? We address this question by drawing from two …

Both quantitative and qualitative research has provided evidence of a fashion system with
principled aesthetic transitions. Previous theories of coordination have been proposed at the …

How do cultural artifacts deemed too immoral to own as intellectual property become
legitimate assets? This chapter investigates the emergence of formal trademark rights to …

This article examines how creative industry workers engage with diversity, absent a formal
organizational mandate to do so. Through in-depth interviews with independent music …