Simone Ferriani

TL;DR: It is argued that individuals who occupy an intermediate position between the core and the periphery of their social system are in a favorable position to achieve creative results.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the performance determinants of project-entrepreneurs, namely the individuals who are responsible for launching and carrying out those projects, and they argue that project entrepreneurs' performance is related to their degree of centrality within the social network and their familiarity with the selected project-team as captured by the distribution of ties among team members.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between cultural producers' position in the social structure and the consecration of their creative work by relevant audiences and found that peers are more likely to favor candidates who are highly embedded in the field, whereas critics will not show such favoritism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how consensus is affected by the structure of interaction in the network connecting social audiences to candidate organizations and find strong support for the claim that the legitimation process has a relational foundation that involves ties between organizational entities and the external others with whom they interact.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of detailed processes enabling the shift of technology to new domains of application is presented, where the concept of speciation is used to explain evidence on how technologies branch and advance.