What Makes an Artrepreneur?

Robert Hoffmann (), Bronwyn Coate, Swee-Hoon Chuah () and Pia Arenius
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Robert Hoffmann: RMIT University
Bronwyn Coate: RMIT University
Swee-Hoon Chuah: University of Tasmania
Pia Arenius: RMIT University

Journal of Cultural Economics, 2021, vol. 45, issue 4, No 3, 557-576

Abstract: Abstract We present an exploratory study to examine the antecedents of artrepreneurship, the decision of artists to commercialise the fruits of their practice. We hypothesise and test the influence of three key drivers using a questionnaire-based study with 93 practicing artists. While a number of factors from individual difference psychology are significant explanators, objective characteristics associated with several aspects of artistic practice (such as career stage, income, recognition and time intensity) provide little evidence to explain what makes an artist become an artrepreneur. We also measure the concept of artrepreneurial passion adapted from the business entrepreneurship literature but find no evidence that this drives artrepreneurship. Overall the results, while tentative based on a modest sample size, support a disconnect between artistic identity and business venturing as suggested in the previous work. Instead, individual difference characteristics associated more generally with business entrepreneurship seem to make the artrepreneur.

Keywords: Artists; Entrepreneurship; Artrepreneur; Personality; Passion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B40 C90 D90 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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