Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem1

By Brian Uzzi, Jarrett Spiro. American Journal of Sociology, 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Nexus Work: Brokerage on Creative Projects (2010, background): “…2008; Weber, Heinze, and DeSoucey, 2008), and projects arising in creative industries such as fi lm (Faulkner and Anderson, 1987; Lampel and Shamsie, 2003; Jones, 2006), theatre (Goodman and Goodman, 1976; Uzzi and Spiro, 2005), art (Becker, 1982; DiMaggio, 1991), and music (Faulkner, 1983).”
Clusters for life or life cycles of clusters: in search of the critical factors of clusters' resilience (2014, background): “…1999) in which the core encourages information circulation, conformity and the emergence of social norms between the members of the core, while the players in the periphery remain potential providers of fresh and new ideas, as evidenced by Uzzi and Spiro (2005) and Cattani and Ferriani (2008).”
Exploring the Locus of Invention: The Dynamics of Network Communities and Firms' Invention Productivity (2014, background): “For example, some of these scholars have linked the highest levels of creativity to moderate levels of small-worldness in the system, arguing that this structure provides actors with a broad and quick access to knowledge while also preserving its overall diversity (Uzzi & Spiro, 2005).”
Network Structure, Collaborative Context, and Individual Creativity (2019, background): “On the one hand, dense, socially bonded networks should strengthen trust, mutual monitoring, and interpersonal collaboration among network participants (Coleman 1988), promoting the knowledge sharing that fosters individual creativity (Obstfeld 2005, Reagans and McEvily 2003, Uzzi and Spiro 2005).”
The Network Structure of Exploration and Exploitation (2007, methodology): “This vein of research on small groups has also been followed up more recently with findings suggesting that denser ties among group members are related to success (e.g., Reagans and Zuckerman, 2001; Uzzi and Spiro, 2005; meta analysis by Balkundi and Harrison, 2006).”
Jules or Jim: Alternative Conformity to Minority Logics (2012, methodology): “…1979) in the resource providers’ network; we counted the number of ties to a given sofica over a three-year window.2 We included “failure” data on ties formed in projects that were never completed, which allowed us to avoid a statistical bias common in network studies (Uzzi & Spiro, 2005).”
The influence of relationship networks on academic performance in higher education: a comparative study between students of a creative and a non-creative discipline (2016, background): “The literature has stressed the differences in creative outcomes for individuals that may stem from their location in both core and periphery (Perry-Smith and Shalley 2003; Uzzi and Spiro 2005; Cattani and Ferriani 2008).”
Cultural economy and the creative field of the city (2010, background): “…in any given transaction is unhelpful because it merely reinforces what is already known; and so is too much, because it may not be decodable at the point of reception; intermediate doses of both are calculated to push learning and creativity forward most rapidly (nonaka 1994; Uzzi and Spiro 2005).”