The Emergence of Creative Leaders Within Social Networks: The Case of Andy Warhol in the Art World of New York
The creative leadership literature has identified personality traits, skills, states, and behaviours which are effective within creative contexts and organisations, but it is yet to address how creative leaders emerge from social networks. This conceptual paper delineates the processes of creative l...
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| description | The creative leadership literature has identified personality traits, skills, states, and behaviours which are effective within creative contexts and organisations, but it is yet to address how creative leaders emerge from social networks. This conceptual paper delineates the processes of creative leader emergence within the context of contemporary visual arts. Using a relational view of creative leader emergence, this paper incorporates the leader emergence processes of achievement and ascription, and then adjusts them to the context of the art world. We argue that both competence and identity contribute to the status construction of creative leaders by enabling their emergence within social networks. In addition to the processes of leader prototypicality through which leaders emerge within groups, we also identify processes of leader atypicality through which creative leaders emerge within network structures. Finally, our conceptual analysis is illustrated by the case of Pop artist Andy Warhol, focusing on his emergence as a creative leader within the art world of New York and his art studio, the factory. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2ba025f128d94652a954a90956b9dfac2022-12-21T22:06:56ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-07-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.635678635678The Emergence of Creative Leaders Within Social Networks: The Case of Andy Warhol in the Art World of New YorkMarios Samdanis0Soo Hee Lee1Brunel Business School, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, United KingdomKent Business School, University of Kent, Canterbury, United KingdomThe creative leadership literature has identified personality traits, skills, states, and behaviours which are effective within creative contexts and organisations, but it is yet to address how creative leaders emerge from social networks. This conceptual paper delineates the processes of creative leader emergence within the context of contemporary visual arts. Using a relational view of creative leader emergence, this paper incorporates the leader emergence processes of achievement and ascription, and then adjusts them to the context of the art world. We argue that both competence and identity contribute to the status construction of creative leaders by enabling their emergence within social networks. In addition to the processes of leader prototypicality through which leaders emerge within groups, we also identify processes of leader atypicality through which creative leaders emerge within network structures. Finally, our conceptual analysis is illustrated by the case of Pop artist Andy Warhol, focusing on his emergence as a creative leader within the art world of New York and his art studio, the factory.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635678/fullcreative leader emergenceart worldachievementascriptionsocial networksatypicality |
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| title | The Emergence of Creative Leaders Within Social Networks: The Case of Andy Warhol in the Art World of New York |
| title_full | The Emergence of Creative Leaders Within Social Networks: The Case of Andy Warhol in the Art World of New York |
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| title_short | The Emergence of Creative Leaders Within Social Networks: The Case of Andy Warhol in the Art World of New York |
| title_sort | emergence of creative leaders within social networks the case of andy warhol in the art world of new york |
| topic | creative leader emergence art world achievement ascription social networks atypicality |
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