Data from: Brokering the core and the periphery: creative success and collaboration networks in the film industry

In collaboration-based creative industries, such as film production, creators in the network core enjoy prestige and legitimacy that are key for creative success. However, core creators are challenged to maintain diverse access to new ideas or alternative views that often emerge from the network periphery. In this paper, we demonstrate that creators in the network core can increase the probability of their creative success by brokering peripheral collaborators to the core. The argument is tested on a dynamic collaboration network of movie creators constructed from a unique dataset of Hungarian feature films for the 1990-2009 period. We propose a new way to capture brokers’ role in core/periphery networks and provide evidence that being in the core and at the same time bridging between the core and the periphery of the network significantly increases the likelihood of award winning.

在以合作为基础的创意产业（如电影制作）中，处于网络核心的创作者拥有声望与合法性，这是实现创意成功的关键要素。然而，核心创作者却面临着维持多元获取新想法或另类视角的挑战——这些新想法与另类视角往往诞生于网络外围。本文证明，网络核心的创作者可通过将外围合作者引荐至核心圈层，提升自身创意成功的概率。本研究的论点通过基于1990-2009年匈牙利剧情长片独家数据集构建的电影创作者动态合作网络得到了验证。我们提出了一种刻画核心-外围网络中中介者角色的新方法，并证实：同时处于网络核心且兼具核心与外围之间的联结者身份，可显著提升创作者获奖的可能性。