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The Wall Street Journal from printed media to the Web.
No full textEuropean Case Clearing House (ECCH)
Producing the Italian “Big Brother”: Il Grande Fratello (A).
No full textThis is the first of a three-case series. The case describes the decision of Mediaset (the most important Italian commercial broadcaster in Italy) about purchasing the Big Brother format. Mediaset had to present the autumn season programming schedule to advertising investors,and a decision had to be taken whether to broadcast the Italian edition of Big Brother or not,evaluating the risks and benefits associated with the programme. Mediaset's competitive situation was in a particularly critical phase. At the time of the decision,RAI (the Italian public network and most important competitor),had just finished broadcasting the 50th edition of the Festival of Sanremo,and this had been a great success. At the same time Big Brother was already a very controversial programme from an ethical standpoint,and Mediaset was concerned about the possible damage to the company's image and reputation that might arise by broadcasting it
The New York Times from printed media to the Web.
No full textThe case deals with the introduction of the New York Times (NYT) web edition. The case, after a brief review of the fundamental stages of the newspaper's development from its foundation in 1851 until 1999, covers the history of the digital edition of the newspaper, highlighting the following issues: (1) the organisational problem associated with inserting a new structure within the group, and the legitimisation of the new edition with respect to the traditional one; and (2) decisions relating to content and the pricing policy adopted. After having described the integration and co-ordination between the production and distribution process of the traditional version and the web edition of the newspaper, the focus lies on the competitive positioning in the arena of on-line business, where product and service differentiation among competitors proves to be less obvious
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Hybrids in Hollywood: a study of the production and performance of genre-spanning films
No full textResearch suggests there are significant market penalties for organizations that do not conform to category boundaries in their product offerings. Yet, organizations continue to span categories despite these risks. In this study, we shed insight into why by examining factors that shape the attractiveness of producing hybrid (i.e. category-spanning) products. In particular, we argue that more ambiguous category schemas encourage hybridization. Moreover, there is potential for excep- tional performance advantages for organizations that innovate through hybrids. We use data from the US feature film industry to test and find support for our hypotheses
Organizations Coevolving: System Dependent Evolution in the Population of Commercial U.S. Television Stations, 1940-2000
No full textVariations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Challenger groups, commercial organizations, and policy enactment: Local lesbian/gay rights ordinances in the U.S. from 1972-2008.
No full textDrawing on theories of social movements and organizations, the authors examine how the expanding presence of commercial organizations and the growing diversity of their forms foster policy change securing rights for a group of challengers. In particular, they suggest that these organizations can operate as bridges and can signal the legitimacy of the group in a community. Empirically, they analyze organizations linked to lesbians/gays and the promulgation of local ordinances banning discrimination, using a data set covering American counties from 1972 to 2008. Using hazard models, they find that the rate of policy enactment increases 1) with greater presence of lesbian/gay commercial organizations, particularly of those linking toward the larger community, and 2) with greater diversity of their organizational forms. Finally, they find evidence that commercial and political organizations are linked in a complex way
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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