When Disney came to Broadway: Assessing the impact of corporatization in an art world

Thomas, Kyla

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2019.101384

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Section: Societal Innovation and Paradoxmentioning

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“…Market concentration has increased, oligopolies have emerged, diversity and labor productivity has dropped, knowledge diffusion has stalled, and quality‐improving innovations from incumbent firms increasingly outweigh destructive innovations by entrants (Akcigit & Ates, 2019; Akcigit & Ates, 2021; Akcigit et al., 2021; Dowd, 2004; Garcia‐Macia et al., 2016). While cultural innovation like the emergence of rap have changed the popular music scene, other cultural industries, from Broadway to Orchestras have become conservative, especially for incumbents, partly to satisfy conservative tastes held by elite consumers (Kremp, 2010; Phillips & Owens, 2004; Thomas, 2019). Science has slowed in innovation as well.…”

Section: Innovation Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Science has slowed in innovation as well. The number of scientists and papers has increased dramatically over the past few decades, but individual scientist productivity has declined (Bloom et al., 2017; Jones, 2009; Thomas, 2019). Paradoxically, increases in research quantity have slowed scientific progress by making it harder for new ideas to gain widespread attention (Chu & Evans, 2021).…”

Section: Innovation Outcomesmentioning

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Destructive creation, creative destruction, and the paradox of innovation science

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Innovation or the creation and diffusion of new material, social and cultural things in society has been widely studied in sociology and across the social sciences, with investigations sufficiently diverse and dispersed to make them unnavigable. This complexity results from innovation's importance for society, but also the fundamental paradox underlying innovation science: When innovation becomes predictable, it ceases to be an engine of novelty and change. Here we review innovation studies and show that innovations emerge from contexts of discord and disorder, breaches in the structure of prior success, through a process we term destructive creation. This often leads to a complementary process of creative destruction whereby local structures protect and channel the diffusion of successful innovations, rendering alternatives obsolete. We find that social scientists naturally focus far more on how social and cultural contexts influence material innovations than the converse. We highlight computational tools that open new possibilities for the analysis of novel content and context in interaction, and show how this brings us empirically toward the broader range of possibilities that complex systems and science studies have theorized—and science fiction has imagined—the social, cultural and material structures of innovation conditioning each other's change through cycles of disruption and development.

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Section: Societal Innovation and Paradoxmentioning

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Section: Innovation Outcomesmentioning

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Section: Innovation Outcomesmentioning

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Destructive creation, creative destruction, and the paradox of innovation science

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“…Science has slowed in innovation as well. The number of scientists and papers has increased dramatically over the past few decades, but individual scientist productivity has declined (Bloom et al, 2017;Jones, 2009;Thomas, 2019). Paradoxically, increases in research quantity have slowed scientific progress by making it harder for new ideas to gain widespread attention (Chu & Evans, 2021).…”

Section: Societal Innovation and Paradoxmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Supportive policies can also facilitate knowledge diffusion (Bloom et al 2017;Jandhyala & Phene, 2015;Thomas, 2019), accelerate innovation, and broaden its relevance for more of society (Koning et al, 2021). Such policies activate and draw upon the benefits of sustained diversity through contained cognitive conflict.…”

Section: Supportive Mechanisms For Societal Innovationmentioning

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Destructive creation, creative destruction, and the paradox of innovation science

Cao¹,

Chen²,

Evans³

2022

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Innovation or the creation and diffusion of new material, social and cultural things in society has been widely studied in sociology and across the social sciences, with investigations sufficiently diverse and dispersed to make them unnavigable. This complexity results from innovation’s importance for society, but also the fundamental paradox underlying innovation science: When innovation becomes predictable, it ceases to be an engine of novelty and change. Here we review innovation studies and show that innovations emerge from contexts of discord and disorder, breaches in the structure of prior success, through a process we term destructive creation. This often leads to a complementary process of creative destruction whereby local structures protect and channel the diffusion of successful innovations, rendering alternatives obsolete. We find that social scientists naturally focus far more on how social and cultural contexts influence material innovations than the converse. We highlight computational tools that open new possibilities for the analysis of novel content and context in interaction, and show how this brings us empirically toward the broader range of possibilities that complex systems and science studies have theorized—and science fiction has imagined—the social, cultural and material structures of innovation conditioning each other’s change through cycles of disruption and development.

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Artists versus arts council: A longitudinal analysis of brand legitimacy

Rentschler

Fillis

Lee

2022

Poetics

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When Disney came to Broadway: Assessing the impact of corporatization in an art world

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Destructive creation, creative destruction, and the paradox of innovation science

Destructive creation, creative destruction, and the paradox of innovation science

Destructive creation, creative destruction, and the paradox of innovation science

Artists versus arts council: A longitudinal analysis of brand legitimacy

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