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This comprehensive book covers relevant issues on how media companies are currently embracing innovation, the levels at which they are doing so, and how innovation can help media companies to meet their development needs in the future.The primary focus of this study is the relationship between management and innovation in the media industry. The book evaluates the importance and the role of innovation within the media industry and helps identify and evaluate the drivers of innovation. The contributors demonstrate and build upon an understanding of the issues and strategies that bind media firms to new processes and technologies and offer clear guidelines on how media companies can accelerate growth through effective internal and external collaboration. Management and Innovation in the Media Industry highlights those issues that influence strategies, organizational structures, media content management and public interest within media firms. This unique study offers both new theoretical and empirical insights on decision making aspects of innovation relevant for those executives and policy makers operating within the media or related industries. It will be of great interest to academics and students in the fields of communication and journalism as well as innovation management.
Edited by Cinzia Dal Zotto, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland and Hans van Kranenburg, Professor of Corporate Strategy, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Contents: IntroductionPART I: INNOVATION PERSPECTIVES1. Innovation and Creativity in the Media Industry: What? Where? How?Lucy Küng2. Understanding Innovation in New and Young Media FirmsAlexander McKelvie and Johan Wiklund3. Applying Intellectual Property Rights Theory to the Analysis of Innovation Competition in Mass Media Content Markets – A General Framework and a Theoretical Application to Media FormatsFrank Lobigs and Gabriele SiegertPART II: INNOVATION RESEARCH4. Towards a Methodological Foundation of Media Innovation ResearchFrank Habann5. Promises and Challenges of Innovation Surveys: The German Record IndustryChristian HandkePART III: STRATEGY AND INNOVATION PERFORMANCE6. Transformations in the Media Industry: Customization and Branding as Strategic Choices for Media FirmsAna Andjelic7. Strategies to Exploit the Advantages of New Targeting Technologies: Realizing the Advertising Revenue Potential of Media AudiencesSteven S. Wildman8. Media Organizational Culture and Innovative PerformanceRichard van der Wurff and Mark Leenders9. Innovation through External Sourcing Activities: An Overview of Major Trends and Patterns of the Telecommunications Service Provider IndustryHans van Kranenburg, Jaqueline Pennings, Cinzia Dal Zotto and John Hagedoorn PART IV: INNOVATION MANAGEMENT10. Diffusion of Innovation in News Organizations: Action Research of Middle Managers in Danish Mass MediaAnker Brink Lund11. Decision Making by Newspaper Editors: Understanding Values and ChangeGeorge Sylvie and J. Sonia Huang12. Social Piloting as Testing Methodology for Media InnovationsAndreas E. Tasch and Tobias Fredberg13. Managing Innovation in Audience Measurement: The US Case Studies of BookScan and the Local People MeterPhilip M. Napoli and Kurt AndrewsIndex