Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine the similarities between creative business leadership and successful artists and to illustrate how the label “outside artist” is a romantic myth. Design/methodology/approach – Making use of four cases in classical music history, this...

Introduction Corruption is like the slow rotting of a dead body says a modern author. Unsatisfied with a “rotten body” analogy, one may want a non‐moralist definition of corruption. The subject of corruption and bribing has been treated in several theoretical essays but few empirical...