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The Organizational Implications of Creativity : The Us Film Industry in Mid-Xxth Century
Gil, Ricard - 2014
We develop a basic framework to understand the organization of highly creative activities. Management faces a … fundamental tradeoff in organizing such activities. On the one hand, since creativity cannot be achieved by command and control or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751853
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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply … reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We … find large cross-country differences in the adoption of management practices, with the US having the highest size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989131
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Creativity and the Family Tree : Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert - 2014
relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067376
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As Science Evolves, How Can Science Policy?
Jones, Benjamin F. - 2014
Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing generations of innovators spend longer in training and become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069843
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When Ideas Trump Interests : Preferences, World Views, and Policy Innovations
Rodrik, Dani - 2013
The contemporary approach to political economy is built around vested interests - elites, lobbies, and rent-seeking groups which get their way at the expense of the general public. The role of ideas in shaping those interests is typically ignored or downplayed. Yet each of the three components...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073185
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Two Paths to Abstract Art : Kandinsky and Malevich
Galenson, David W. - 2020
Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich were both great Russian painters who became pioneers of abstract art during the second decade of the twentieth century. Yet the forms of their art differed radically, as did their artistic methods and goals. Kandinsky, an experimental artist, approached...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833258
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Young Geniuses and Old Masters : The Life Cycles of Great Artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns
Galenson, David W. - 2020
There have been two very different life cycles for great artists: some have made their greatest contributions very early in their careers, whereas others have produced their best work late in their lives. These two patterns have been associated with different working methods, as art's young...
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Language in Visual Art : The Twentieth Century
Galenson, David W. - 2020
Words have appeared in visual art since classical times, but until the modern era their use was generally restricted to a few specific functions. In the early twentieth century, the Cubists Braque and Picasso began using words in their paintings and collages in entirely new ways, and their...
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Analyzing Artistic Innovation : The Greatest Breakthroughs of the Twentieth Century
Galenson, David W. - 2020
. In general, identifying the most important short periods of artistic creativity emphasizes the differing methods of … gradually, adds an important dimension to our understanding of human creativity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836555
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Very Young or Very Old Innovator : Creativity at the Extremes of the Life Cycle
Galenson, David W. - 2020
artistic disciplines, and the value of the analysis in explaining the very different relationships between age and creativity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838703