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Hollywood's dominance of the movie industry : how did it arise and how has it been maintained?
No full textHollywood’s dominance of the movie industry has been the subject of numerous studies. An interdisciplinary literature review in this thesis identified twenty different single or multiple factor explanations that try to account for Major studio dominance at different time periods but cannot comprehensively explain how Hollywood acquired and maintained dominance for nine decades. This thesis reviewed the economics, management and marketing literatures to identify existing theoretical explanations for the acquisition and persistence of market dominance. It then integrated existing theories identified within the business literature into a ‘theoretical lens’. This lens enables an historical analysis of Hollywood’s longstanding dominance of the movie business to be undertaken from a strategic business perspective. This thesis concludes that the Major studios rise to market leadership and enduring dominance can primarily be explained because they developed and maintained a set of strategic marketing management capabilities that were superior to rival firms and rival film industries. It is argued that a marketing orientation and effective strategic marketing management capabilities also provide a unifying theory for Hollywood’s enduring dominance because they can account for each of the twenty previously identified explanations for that dominance. The original contribution of this thesis is the development of a strategic marketing management lens and a set of guiding questions that can facilitate a strategic analysis of market dominance in any industry
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
Toy stories : the strategic use of narratives in the branding of traditional toys
No full textIt is well known in the toy entertainment industry that children have a strong relationship with the\ud
characters and stories of various well known entertainment property toy brands (e.g. Mattel, 2005;\ud
Pecora, 1998; Miller, 1998; Cross, 1997). This paper presents branding insights and findings from a\ud
content analysis of ten highly successful toy story brand narratives that featured in children’s\ud
television programs and movies. This study argues that a toy story’s character personality is related\ud
to their on-screen action performance. By implication in branding terms, this implies that narrative\ud
brands with relatively inferior product-based performance abilities or attributes can still take\ud
audience share by focusing heavily on developing a highly distinctive and likable brand personality\ud
that clearly narrates strongly supporting brand values within the plot of a television program or\ud
motion picture
Variations 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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Are movie theaters doomed? Do exhibitors see the big picture as theaters lose their competitive advantage
Full text linkMovie theaters in the U.S. may have recently ended a period of crisis but this paper argues that major problems are not over for the industry. Most movie theaters in the multiplex era have adopted a remarkably similar strategy which is also very vulnerable to recent trends such as the explosion of home cinema, pay TV, VOD, discounting by mass merchandisers of DVDs, computer games and the collapse of video windows. Just as technological convergence has created a challenge for movie theatres, as it has in the past, so can new technologies and creative use of assets combined with multiple target marketing offer a counter measure for at least some movie theatres – until the next challenge. What is unlikely to succeed is more of the same, especially when so many multiplex chains offer the same format as others, appear to adopt a narrow definition of what business they are in and manifest a one size should fit all approach to customers. The industry has employed differentiation and niche marketing much less than other industries. The very diversity of strategies needed means that all cannot be explored in this paper which will focus on two new technologies from the IMAX corporation, DMX and MPX, as an example of how a theatre operator might counter audience declines
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