Stars—employees with disproportionately high and prolonged (a) performance,(b) visibility,
and (c) relevant social capital—have garnered attention in economics, sociology, and …

There has a significant increase in the volume of research on the management of talent over
recent decades; however, the question of what talent is remains under debate. How talent is …

Instead of purchasing individual content, streaming adopters rent access to libraries from
which they can consume content at no additional cost. In this paper, we study how the …

Hit songs, books, and movies are many times more successful than average, suggesting that
“the best” alternatives are qualitatively different from “the rest”; yet experts routinely fail to …

The phenomenon of stars is defined by Sherwin Rosen to be one" wherein relatively small
numbers of people earn enormous amounts of money and dominate the activi-ties in which …

4. There is more than one species of determinism. Gigerenzer et al. distinguish five:•
metaphysical determinism, which posits that every given event or state of affairs had to …

Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed
itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood's …

Music is so ubiquitous that it can be easy to overlook the powerful influence it exerts in so
many areas of our lives-from birth, through childhood, to old age. The Social and Applied …

Everyone knows that the movie business is risky. But how risky is it? Do strategies exist that
reduce risk? We investigate these questions using a sample of over 2000 motion pictures …

Just how risky is the movie industry? Is screenwriter William Goldman's claim that" nobody
knows anything" really true? Can a star and a big opening change a movie's risks and …