Dynamic Capabilities in Media Management Research: A Literature Review

Abstract Purpose – This study explores Dynamic Capabilities (DC) as one of the most prolific streams of research within the field of management and looks its applicability for media management research. Argumentation – It argues that reviewing the lineages of DC is a useful exercise for answering questions surrounding the fundamental change in the media industry, the challenges that media organizations and their managers are currently facing under the impact of digital change, and the theoretical grounding DC offers for media management scholars in understand the breadth and complexity of these challenges. Design/Methodology/Approach – This study uses a systematic reviewing methodology on DC in media management research. Findings – The study shows that DC help media research understand how media firms can best respond to changing environments. Research activity published from 2003 to 2019 in the field of media management has grown considerably. In the number of research papers related to the dynamic capabilities concept in the media management field between. Originality/Value – The study qualifies the validity of the DC framework in media management research and discusses conceptual bridges between the fields, its constituencies and perspectives

TV Film Financing in the Era of “Connected TV”

This chapter provides an economic analysis of the television broadcasting industry at the convergence of broadcast and broadband connectivity towards “connected TV”. Connected TV is the new buzzword in home entertainment and includes a wide range of technical solutions that bring linear TV and the Internet world together. This chapter explores (a) the changing nature of the TV market in the light of digital disruption, (b) the potential impact these changes may have on financing film, and (c) the key issues affecting the role of public broadcasting who are basically mandated by law to start up and refund (independent) film productions by means of “mandatory transfers”. By offering two case studies from Germany and the UK, the challenges of public funding for supporting film production are illuminated. The study also shows that the changes produced by media convergence create a complexity of business models and organizational strategies, in which “legacy” broadcasting maintains a partial immunity to change

Cultuurberichtgeving in een tijdperk van globalisering

This article aims at charting and elucidating key developments and cross-national variations in the coverage given to foreign and indigenous cultural products (classical and popular music, dance, film, literature, theater, television fiction, and visual arts) in American, Dutch, French, and German newspapers between 1955 and 2005. Using content analysis, it is first explored to what extent the explosive growth of international cultural traffic in the second half of the twentieth century has been accompanied by increased newspaper coverage of foreign arts and culture in the four countries under study. Second, the article examines the assumption that the degree and direction of international orientation differs among countries according to their size, the centrality of their cultural production or their production in particular cultural fields, and their cultural policy framework. Third, the article qualifies the evolving patterns of dominance in the international orientation of arts journalism in each country, in terms of countries and regions represented in arts and culture coverage