| Cross-Border Status Attainment of Chinese Actors |
Received:September 26, 2017 Revised:September 26, 2017 |
Key Words: Status, cross-labor-market move, Hong Kong, China |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Andrew Shipilov | INSEAD | | Stan Xiao Li* | Xi'an Jiaotong University and York University, Canada | | Wan Li | University of Saskatchewan |
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Abstract: |
| Despite the wealth of sociological research on the antecedents of status, we know little about the mechanisms that affect ability of individuals in one market to attain status in another market. The issues of cross-market status transfer are especially salient in the creative industries that are characterized by intensive cross-country talent mobility. We combine research on status and typecasting to explain the mechanisms causing some new entrants from a foreign country to lose or gain status in a host country relative to other new entrants. We find that low-status new entrants gain status relative to high-status new entrants. We also find that low-status generalist new entrants gain status relative to high-status generalist new entrants. We develop these insights through the analysis of an original dataset on the status attainment of Chinese movie actors in the Hong Kong film industry. |
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