Authors
Benjamin Stuart Rodney Farr-Wharton, Kerry Brown, Robyn Keast, Yuliya Shymko
Publication date
2015/5/18
Journal
Management Decision
Volume
53
Issue
4
Pages
857-875
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Description
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of organisational business acumen and social network structure on the earnings and labour precarity experienced by creative industry workers.
Design/methodology/approach
– Results from a survey that collected data from a random sample of 289 creative workers are analysed using structural equation modelling. Mediating effects of social network structure are explored.
Findings
– Results support the qualitative findings of Crombie and Hagoort (2010) who claim that organisational business acumen is a significant enabler for creative workers. Further, social network structure has a partial mediating effect in mitigating labour precarity.
Research limitations/implications
– This exploratory study is novel in its use of a quantitative approach to …
Scholar articles
BSR Farr-Wharton, K Brown, R Keast, Y Shymko - Management Decision, 2015