Stay True to Your Roots? Category Distance, Hierarchy, and the Performance of New Entrants in the Music Industry

The authors thank Noah Askin, Lisa Cohen, Daphne Demetry, Peer Fiss, Oliver Hahl, Jenn Lena, Ming Leung, and Ezra Zuckerman for their feedback and recommendations throughout the process. They also thank Gino Cattani and the anonymous reviewers for their consistently constructive and sage advice. Previous versions of the paper were presented at the European Group for Organization Studies Conference, the Academy of Management, and American Sociological Association conferences. All experiments were conducted in compliance with IRB approval granted by the first author’s university.