The objective of my PhD is to better understand the theoretical and empirical mechanisms of reputation-building in creative industries. Especially focused on the organizational field of contemporary French architecture and on architects' professional trajectories, this dissertation centers on three research questions: Reputation-testing by an audience external to the organizational field; Construction of several reputations in an organizational field; Reputations and celebrity: recognition within a large public. This research aims at contributing to the celebrity theory and that of the institutional view of reputation, by improving our understanding of an artist's recognition mechanisms in a creative industry.
