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When does category spanning hurt or help producers?

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Scholars have theorized many factors shaping whether category spanning helps or hurts producers. We first synthesize evidence by meta‐analyzing 25 years of empirical research, which reveals a null effect of spanning on average, yet with significant subsample heterogeneity. To unpack it, we theorize and find that spanning hurts
Jungsoo Ahn, Jean‐Philippe Vergne, Amanda Sharkey   +2 more
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BOB DYLAN ON LENNY BRUCE: MORE OF AN OUTLAW THAN YOU EVER WERE [PDF]

, 2011
This Essay seeks to compare and contrast two contemporary performing artists: Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce. Bruce and Dylan both became artists in the middle of twentieth-century America—in the same stew of ideas, myths, and shared assumptions.
Harmon, Louise
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From toothpick legs to dropping vaginas: Gender and sexuality in Joan Rivers' stand-up comedy performance [PDF]

, 2011
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2011 Intellect.This article employs sociocultural analysis to examine Joan Rivers’ stand-up comedy performances in order to reveal how she
Bakhtin M. M., Barrick A. L., Bell J., Bendelack S., Beynon J., Bytheway B., Carr J., Cellan-Jones J., Channel 4, Chortle: The UK Comedy Guide, Cohen H. L., Davies J. H., Gilbert J., Harwood J., Hitchens C., Horowitz S., Hughes T., Nelson T. D., Nilsen A. P., Peterson R. T., Provine R., Rivers J., Rivers J., Ross A., Smith P., Sontag S., Wagg S., Wheeler P., Zillman D., Zoglin R.   +29 more
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An Outline of a Theory of Play

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

The comic, not the comedy: effect of joke-origin-induced expectancy on cognitive humour. [PDF]

Objectives: The present set of experiments examined whether humour expectancy (determined by the joke teller) impacts the humour evaluation of jokes. Design: Across four experiments, participants rated jokes purportedly delivered via celebrity comedians
Johnson, A.J., Mistry, K.
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Can’t Take a Joke? The Asymmetrical Nature of the Politicized Sense of Humor [PDF]

, 2015
In an effort to tease out possible expressions of dispositional differences in people of different political ideologies, this study uses media preference and consumption data from the 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey (NAES08-Online) to examine ...
Gans, Roger
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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 81-87, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
wiley   +1 more source

Organic Representation as a Critical Media Approach to Leadership Studies in Popular Culture

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 75-80, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT This article applies the critical media concept of organic representation to leadership studies as an analytic of how various creators in popular culture today are not just writing inclusive storytelling but, more notably, modeling new modes of production and self‐presentation that are actively challenging hegemonic industry practices and ...
Raffi Sarkissian
wiley   +1 more source

Comedians and their personae

The European Journal of Humour Research
This study investigates the positioning of comedians in streamed stand-up comedy specials (SSCSs). In an analysis of ten 2023 Netflix SSCSs, this research explores the multimodal meaning making in introductory sequences as well as the humorous and ...
Thomas Messerli
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Just Because You\u27re Offended Doesn\u27t Mean You\u27re In The Right: A Perspective on Language, Comedy, and Ethics

, 2013
Some humor is offensive, but does this convey a moral constraint on what comedians can include in their jokes? Using stand up bits and reflections on comedy from George Carlin, Louis C.K., and Doug Stanhope, various philosophies of humor, and the ...
Garrett, James H.
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