ON BECOMING EXTRAORDINARY: THE CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL NETWORKS OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cotton, Richard D.; Shen, Yan; Livne-Tarandach, Reut
• 署名单位: University of North Carolina; Appalachian State University; Boston University; Boston College
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2011.59215081
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 15-46
• 关键词: CAREER SUCCESS; role-models; LIFE-STORY; social networks; top; performance; pay; ORGANIZATIONS; CONSEQUENCES; antecedents

摘要

We explore the structure and content of developmental networks depicted in 62 National Baseball Hall of Fame induction speeches to identify which developers and what support mattered most to inductees' career achievement. Our analysis illustrates two new support subfunctions (freedom and opportunity for skill development and inspiration and motivation) and shows that first-ballot inductees had larger, more diverse developmental networks featuring greater multiplexity and more single-function ties, plus greater supplementary psychosocial and complementary career support from a wider range of core and peripheral career communities, than later-ballot inductees. We conclude with a theoretical model of extraordinary career achievement.