Recognition and Renown: The Survival of Artistic Reputation

Lang, Gladys Engel; Lang, Kurt

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“…xiii Potential driving questions which are currently attracting interest include 1) how shared tastes are formed through networks (Pachucki & Brieger 2010) and the impact of previous networks contacts on evaluative process and outcomes; 2) how representations of the value of symbolic goods are transmitted across generations through textbooks and other mechanisms of diffusion, so as to become part of a group"s collective memory (Lang and Lang 1988;see Santana-Acuña (2012) on the classicization of García Márquez"s One Hundred Years of Solitude); and 3) how the construction of publics may operate as intermediary step to evaluation process (e.g. Ikegami 2005;Muetzel 2011).…”

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Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation

2012

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This review discusses North American and European research from the sociology of valuation and evaluation (SVE), a research topic that has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The goal is to bring various bodies of work into conversation with one another in order to stimulate more cumulative theory building. This is accomplished by focusing on (a) subprocesses such as categorization and legitimation, (b) the conditions that sustain heterarchies, and (c) valuation and evaluative practices. The article reviews these literatures and provides directions for a future research agenda.

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“…As with other cultural markets, it is difficult to identify differences in quality among products, to assess them objectively, and to predict the artists or products that will achieve success (DiMaggio, 1977;Salganik, Dodds, & Watts, 2006). Reputation thus plays a key role in art fields in general (Lang & Lang, 1988, 1990 and in the contemporary art field in particular -by providing audiences with information that reduces uncertainty regarding the criteria that are relevant to them.…”

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The Art of Representation: How Audience-specific Reputations Affect Success in the Contemporary Art Field

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Yogev

Lee

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AcknowledgmentWe would like to thank Tim Pollock and the three anonymous reviewers for their excellent suggestions and guidance. We would also like to thank Martin Gargiulo, Matteo Prato, Heeyon Kim, Abhijith G. Acharya, Fabrizio Castellucci, Yi Tang, and Francois Collet for their valuable feedback, as well as participants at presentations at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation and at Singapore Management University. We would also like to express our gratitude for the financial support we have received from the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research 2 THE ART OF REPRESENTATION: HOW AUDIENCE-SPECIFIC REPUTATIONS AFFECT SUCCESS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ART FIELD ABSTRACTWe study the effects of actors' audience-specific reputations on their levels of success with different audiences in the same field. Extending recent work that has emphasized the presence of multiple audiences with different concerns, we demonstrate that considering audience specificity leads to an improved understanding of reputation effects. Using data on emerging artists in the field of contemporary art from 2001 to 2010, we investigate the manner in which artists' audience-specific reputations affect their subsequent success with two distinct audiences: museums and galleries. Our findings suggest that audience-specific reputations have systematically different effects with respect to success with museums and galleries. Our findings also illuminate the extent to which audience-specific reputations are relevant for emerging research on the contingent effects of reputation. In particular, our findings support our predictions that audiences differ from one another in terms of the extent to which other signals (specifically, status and interaction with other audiences) enhance or reduce the value of audience-specific reputations. Our study thus advances theory by providing empirical evidence for the value of incorporating audience-specific reputations into the general study of reputation.3

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“…Murray and White (2004) add to this definition the insight that a recognition among stakeholders for consistency in demeanour, action and communications over time moulds a corporate or individual reputation and charges it with cues to render it distinctive and make it stand out from competition (Fombrun, 1996;Schweizer and Nachoem, 1999). To this pivotal role a risk is attached: There is consensus among writers in the field and abundant empirical evidence to conclude that reputation can erode abruptly, while constructing it requires time (Lang and Lang, 1988;Lang and Lang, 1990). Since reputation reveals itself as a cross-disciplinary idea that is committed to the core corporate objectives and operational processes of an organisation or individual and bound to reflect its mission, values and vision -in brief, its distinctiveness -it amounts to an instrument that minimises and fends off competition (Fombrun, 1998;Schwaiger, 2004).…”

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Conceptual frameworks in historical analysis: using reputation as interpretive prism

Schnee

2017

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This paper advocates a revised perspective in historical analysis. The author calls for historians to apply the concept of reputation as interpretive lens in the analysis of historical processes and outcomes.Widely used in management and marketing writing, but also relied upon in political science, the concept of reputation helps predict behaviour of individuals and entities that are bound by political constraints to align their actions to the goal of generating a popular standing. The lens also serves to cast light on the actions engaged in by external stakeholders that are informed by reputational cues. This theoretical contention is illustrated in four case studies resulting from investigations into political decisions and military conflicts both in the republican and imperial period that ascertain how success and expansion as well as failure and decline of ancient Rome can be viewed and better understood by applying reputation as an instrument to direct and focus historical analysis.However, the purpose of this paper is not primarily to suggest complementary angles and alternative answers to issues in ancient Roman history. The cases considered are intended to demonstrate how failure to recognise reputation as a significant concept in historical analysis does not only impair a comprehensive and balanced reflection of personal and organisational stakeholder behaviour, but also thwarts a full appreciation of the motivation that drives individual protagonists and institutional agents, whose decisions are central to historical processes and outcomes.

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Recognition and Renown: The Survival of Artistic Reputation

Cited by 181 publications

References 16 publications

Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation

Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation

The Art of Representation: How Audience-specific Reputations Affect Success in the Contemporary Art Field

Conceptual frameworks in historical analysis: using reputation as interpretive prism

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