TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaboration and creativity
T2 - The small world problem
AU - Uzzi, Brian
AU - Spiro, Jarrett
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2005/9
Y1 - 2005/9
N2 - Small world networks have received disproportionate notice in diverse fields because of their suspected effect on system dynamics. The authors analyzed the small world network of the creative artists who made Broadway musicals from 1945 to 1989. Using original arguments, new statistical methods, and tests of construct validity, they found that the varying "small world" properties of the systemic-level network of these artists affected their creativity in terms of the financial and artistic performance of the musicals they produced. The small world network effect was parabolic; performance increased up to a threshold, after which point the positive effects reversed.
AB - Small world networks have received disproportionate notice in diverse fields because of their suspected effect on system dynamics. The authors analyzed the small world network of the creative artists who made Broadway musicals from 1945 to 1989. Using original arguments, new statistical methods, and tests of construct validity, they found that the varying "small world" properties of the systemic-level network of these artists affected their creativity in terms of the financial and artistic performance of the musicals they produced. The small world network effect was parabolic; performance increased up to a threshold, after which point the positive effects reversed.
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U2 - 10.1086/432782
DO - 10.1086/432782
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:21344461300
VL - 111
SP - 447
EP - 504
JO - American Journal of Sociology
JF - American Journal of Sociology
SN - 0002-9602
IS - 2
ER -