The Emergence of Creative Leaders Within Social Networks: The Case of Andy Warhol in the Art World of New York

Frontiers in Psychology

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Marios Samdanis¹  Soo Hee Lee² 

[1] Brunel Business School, Brunel University London, United Kingdom;Kent Business School, University of Kent, United Kingdom

关键词: creative leader emergence;    art world;    achievement;    ascription;    social networks;    atypicality;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635678

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY