Conceptual Spaces and the Consequences of Category Spanning

Kovács, Balázs; Hannan, Michael T.

doi:10.15195/v2.a13

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“…We use the measure of overall atypicality proposed by Kovács and Hannan (2015). Object atypicality is defined as a function of the average pair-wise distance between the labels by which the object gets categorized.…”

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What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption

2016

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Citation for published item:rnnnD wF F nd qoldergD eF nd uov¡ sD fF @PHITA 9ht does it men to spn ulturl oundriesc riety nd typility in ulturl onsumptionF9D emerin soiologil reviewFD VI @PAF ppF PISEPRIF Further information on publisher's website: httpXGGdxFdoiForgGIHFIIUUGHHHQIPPRITTQPUVU Publisher's copyright statement: rnnnD wF F nd qoldergD eF nd uov¡ sD fF @PHITA 9ht does it men to spn ulturl oundriesc riety nd typility in ulturl onsumptionF9D emerin soiologil reviewFD VI @PAF ppF PISEPRIF gopyright PHIT emerin oiologil essoitionF eprinted y permission of eqi ulitionsF Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractWe propose a synthesis of two lines of sociological research on boundary spanning in cultural production and consumption. One, research on cultural omnivorousness, analyzes choice by heterogeneous audiences facing an array of crisp cultural offerings. The other, research on categories in markets, analyzes reactions by homogeneous audiences to objects that vary in the degree to which they conform to categorical codes. We develop a model of heterogeneous audiences evaluating objects that vary in typicality. This allows consideration of orientations on two dimensions of cultural preference: variety and typicality. We propose a novel analytical framework to map consumption behavior in these two dimensions. We argue that one audience type, those who value variety and typicality, are especially resistant to objects that span boundaries. We test this argument in an analysis of two large-scale datasets of reviews of films and restaurants.

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Section: Conceptualizing Atypicalitymentioning

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What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption

2016

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“…Consumer audiences evaluating products and producers usually do not strongly identify themselves with a category-with the exception of community-focused consumers (Fosfuri et al 2011 (Hsu 2006, Negro et al 2010). According to this line of work, market specialists have higher appeal than generalists with their (market) audience for three main reasons: they develop better skills and competences, tend to be regarded more positively, are better understood than generalist players (Kovács and Hannan 2015). The evaluation advantage market specialists may enjoy is thus partially earned-i.e., they develop better skills-and partially the result of audience biases and cognitive confusion.…”

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Institutional Specialization and Survival: Theory and Evidence from the French Film Industry

Jourdan

2018

Strategy Science

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Firms increasingly face fragmented institutional environments where stakeholders endorse different institutional logics. Although the effects of market specialization have been extensively studied, we do not know much about the firm-level implications of institutional specialization, i.e., when firms demonstrate consistent conformity to an institutional logic. In this study, I explore whether and to what extent institutional specialization affects firm survival. In contrast with arguments and evidence highlighting the potential negative survival effect of market specialization, I posit that institutional specialization is positively associated with survival. Because they may be more skilled at interacting with stakeholders, which perceive them as more appealing and understandable, institutional specialists, I argue, are more likely than other firms to form and maintain the reciprocal stakeholder relationships needed to operate and survive. I expect the survival benefit of institutional specialization to be accentuated when the contrast between logics decreases. I test and find support for these ideas using unique population data on French film producers (1994–2008).

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“…A good deal of the literature in this area also highlights draw backs for the boundary spanner in a range of contexts. Having strong parallels with negative experiences expressed by those in the higher education context engaged in interdisciplinary work [38], one of the main concerns related to being the 'jack-of-all-trades'-a generalist-as distinct from the rest of the field [35]. This was particularly prevalent in the context of the clinical domain, with those trained as generalists, feeling isolated, different, misunderstood, like the 'black sheep' and a lack of belonging ( [53], pp.…”

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Connective knowledge: what we need to know about other fields to ‘envision’ cross-disciplinary collaboration

Priaulx

Weinel

2018

Eur J Futures Res

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This paper centralises the question of what academics in higher education settings need to know about other fields to stimulate cross-disciplinary collaborative work. The concept of 'knowledge', while recognised as important within cross-disciplinary studies, has failed to be properly problematized. Little attention has been paid to what cross-disciplinary knowledge actors should possess, the purposes that knowledge might serve and few pause to consider the concept of collaboration itself, as an inherent source of situated learning. The result is recommendations about what researchers should 'know' that cannot be operationalised in practice. Highlighting a distinction between 'Of-Knowledge', entailing a detailed understanding of a field, and 'About-Knowledge', a rudimentary form of knowledge about fields, we explore two key points of the cross-disciplinary collaborative lifecycle to evaluate the needs, purposes, limits and possibilities of knowing. Noting that cross-disciplinary learning is a long process, and for which no pre-packaged 'knowledge' emerges to address the kinds of cognitive deficits that researchers typically identify, we argue that collaboration itself provides a non-substitutable venue for crossdisciplinary learning. In contrast, focusing on the point of 'envisioning' where specialisms are 'scoped out' and collaborative horizons 'mapped', we argue for efforts to be placed in enhancing researchers' 'About-Knowledge', a form of connective knowledge that extends researchers' basic knowledge about other fields prior to constructing collaborative projects. Critical for the aspirations of futures research, and the importance of fostering global, national, regional and local collaboration, we highlight how a little knowledge can go a long way.

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Conceptual Spaces and the Consequences of Category Spanning

Cited by 89 publications

References 56 publications

What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption

What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption

Institutional Specialization and Survival: Theory and Evidence from the French Film Industry

Connective knowledge: what we need to know about other fields to ‘envision’ cross-disciplinary collaboration

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