A study of human and social capital on Hollywood actors' career success.
This research study aims to investigate how social and human capital affects a hollywood actor's career success. Findings from data collected from IMDB on 100 actor and actresses indicate that diversity of experience, namely diversity of genre of films, are higher for successful actors than uns...
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| author | Khong, Shi Hui. |
| author2 | Wong Sze Sze |
| author_facet | Wong Sze Sze Khong, Shi Hui. |
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| description | This research study aims to investigate how social and human capital affects a hollywood actor's career success. Findings from data collected from IMDB on 100 actor and actresses indicate that diversity of experience, namely diversity of genre of films, are higher for successful actors than unsuccessful actors, of which the success is based on average box office earnings. This is in line with hypotheses 1 where diversity of films for actors with successful careers is higher than diversity of films for actors with unsuccessful careers. However, my results show that depth of film, which is measured by the number of films an actor has participated in over his lifetime, is not significant and hypotheses 2 – depth of films for actors with successful careers is higher than depth
of films for actors with unsuccessful careers, is not supported. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/151192023-05-19T06:24:03Z A study of human and social capital on Hollywood actors' career success. Khong, Shi Hui. Wong Sze Sze Nanyang Business School DRNTU::Business::General::Careers and profession This research study aims to investigate how social and human capital affects a hollywood actor's career success. Findings from data collected from IMDB on 100 actor and actresses indicate that diversity of experience, namely diversity of genre of films, are higher for successful actors than unsuccessful actors, of which the success is based on average box office earnings. This is in line with hypotheses 1 where diversity of films for actors with successful careers is higher than diversity of films for actors with unsuccessful careers. However, my results show that depth of film, which is measured by the number of films an actor has participated in over his lifetime, is not significant and hypotheses 2 – depth of films for actors with successful careers is higher than depth of films for actors with unsuccessful careers, is not supported. BUSINESS 2009-03-31T03:45:30Z 2009-03-31T03:45:30Z 2009 2009 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15119 en Nanyang Technological University 32 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Business::General::Careers and profession Khong, Shi Hui. A study of human and social capital on Hollywood actors' career success. |
| title | A study of human and social capital on Hollywood actors' career success. |
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| title_short | A study of human and social capital on Hollywood actors' career success. |
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