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Success and luck in creative careers
Luck is considered to be a crucial ingredient to achieve impact in all
creative domains, despite their diversity. For instance, in science, the movie
industry, music, and art, the occurrence of the highest impact work and of a
hot streak within a creative career are very difficult to predict. Are there
domains that are more prone to luck than others? Here, we provide new insights
on the role of randomness in impact in creative careers in two ways: (i) we
systematically untangle luck and individual ability to generate impact in the
movie, music, and book industries, and in science, and compare the luck factor
between these fields; (ii) we show the limited predictive power of
collaboration networks to predict career hits. Taken together, our analysis
suggests that luck consistently affects career impact across all considered
sectors and improves our understanding in pinpointing the key elements in the
prediction of success
A First Course in Entrepreneurship Fundamentals, Part I
This two-part article offers ideas for teaching students who are interested in entrepreneurship but unprepared for the widely-taught business plan course. Their lack of preparation is due less to a lack of business knowledge than it is to an awareness of their life and career needs and of the realities of entrepreneurial careers. Course content ideas are presented to help these students develop competencies in four areas: self-understanding, knowledge of entrepreneurial careers, a realistic sense of what ventures would work for them, and business-relevant creativity
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Developing business developing careers : how and why employers are supporting the career development of their employees
This publication sets out the case for employers to engage with the idea of career development
Creative Careers and Non-traditional Trajectories
A report on an interview-based research project conducted for the project 'Non-traditional participation and pathways' for the National Arts Learning Networ
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Inequality talk:How discourses by senior men reinforce exclusions from creative occupations
Cultural Studies has drawn attention to the way that cultural and creative industries are marked by significant inequalities. This article explores how these inequalities are maintained, through fieldwork with senior men making decisions in cultural and creative industries. Drawing on 32 interviews with senior men across a range of cultural and creative industry occupations, conducted as part of a larger (Nâ=â237) project, the analysis shows that misrecognition and outright rejection of inequalities are now not the norm. Rather, âinequality talkâ and the recognition of structural barriers for marginalised groups is a dominant discourse. However, individual careers are still explained by gentlemanly tropes and the idea of luck, rather than by reference to structural inequalities. The distance between the discourse of career luck and âinequality talkâ helps to explain the persistence of exclusions from the workforce for those who are not white, middle class origin, men. This has important implications for inequalities in cultural production and consumption, and in turn for wider social inequality
The Macro-Foundations of Microeconomics: Initial Labor Market Conditions and Long-Term Outcomes for Economists
Each year, graduate students entering the academic job market worry that they will suffer due to uncontrollable macroeconomic risk. Given the importance of general human capital and the relative ease of publicly observing productivity in academia, one might expect unlucky graduating cohorts' long-term labor market outcomes to resemble those who graduate in favorable climates. In this paper, I analyze the relationship between macroeconomic conditions at graduation, initial job placement, and long-term outcomes for PhD economists from seven programs. Using macro conditions as an instrument for initial placement, I show a causal effect of quality and type of initial job on long-term job characteristics. I also show that better initial placement increases research productivity, which helps to limit the set of economic models that can explain the effect of initial placement on long-term jobs.
Young people's uses of celebrity: Class, gender and 'improper' celebrity
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural
Politics of Education, 34(1), 2013, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at:
http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01596306.2012.698865.In this article, we explore the question of how celebrity operates in young people's everyday lives, thus contributing to the urgent need to address celebrity's social function. Drawing on data from three studies in England on young people's perspectives on their educational and work futures, we show how celebrity operates as a classed and gendered discursive device within young people's identity work. We illustrate how young people draw upon class and gender distinctions that circulate within celebrity discourses (proper/improper, deserving/undeserving, talented/talentless and respectable/tacky) as they construct their own identities in relation to notions of work, aspiration and achievement. We argue that these distinctions operate as part of neoliberal demands to produce oneself as a âsubject of valueâ. However, some participants produced readings that show ambivalence and even resistance to these dominant discourses. Young people's responses to celebrity are shown to relate to their own class and gender position.The Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the
Economic and Social Research Council, and the UK Resource Centre for
Women in Science Engineering and Technology
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