This paper seeks to explain why Hollywood’s dominant firms are narrowing the scope of creativity in the contemporary … distributors, must discount expected future earnings to present prices with the forward-looking logic of capitalisation; and … uncertainty about where creativity in cinema is going can produce financial uncertainty about the future earning potential of new …

Hollywood firms attempt to control social creativity such that they can mitigate the financial risks inherent in the art of … clashed with the aesthetic potentials of cinema and ultimately stymied creativity in the pursuit of limiting risk. This sharp …In Hollywood, the goals of art and business are entangled. Directors, writers, actors, and idealistic producers aspire …

Hollywood firms attempt to control social creativity such that they can mitigate the financial risks inherent in the art of … clashed with the aesthetic potentials of cinema and ultimately stymied creativity in the pursuit of limiting risk. This sharp …In Hollywood, the goals of art and business are entangled. Directors, writers, actors, and idealistic producers aspire …

fundamental tradeoff in organizing such activities. On the one hand, since creativity cannot be achieved by command and control or … creative talent. Procuring highly creative products in the market place, though, exposes the distributor to a fundamental risk …, distributors face the unavoidable winner's curse risk. Since this risk is, to a large extent, independent of the creative nature of …

fundamental tradeoff in organizing such activities. On the one hand, since creativity cannot be achieved by command and control or … creative talent. Procuring highly creative products in the market place, though, exposes the distributor to a fundamental risk …, distributors face the unavoidable winner's curse risk. Since this risk is, to a large extent, independent of the creative nature of …

fundamental tradeoff in organizing such activities. On the one hand, since creativity cannot be achieved by command and control or … creative talent. Procuring highly creative products in the market place, though, exposes the distributor to a fundamental risk …, distributors face the unavoidable winner's curse risk. Since this risk is, to a large extent, independent of the creative nature of …

, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …

individual intelligence and risk aversion. Specifically, it focuses on two main determinants of creativity (divergent and …This paper presents an analytical model of the dynamic interrelationships between education, creativity, and happiness … happiness gained from creativity in the general and healthy population. An empirical test is provided by matching the model …

business and culture of cinema. If the evolution of Hollywood's star system is shaped by broader social factors, risk reduction …This paper builds an empirical and theoretical model to analyze how the financial goal of risk reduction changed the … insides of Hollywood's star system. For the moviegoer looking at Hollywood cinema from the outside, the function of the star …

This paper investigates the historical development of risk in the Hollywood film business. Using opening theatres as a … proxy for future expectations, the paper demonstrates how, from 1981 to 2011, Hollywood has improved its ability to predict … the financial rankings of its films. More specifically, the Hollywood film business has become better at predicting which …