The business of culture
Subtitle: strategic perspectives on entertainment and media
By: edited by Joseph Lampel, Jamal Shamsie, Theresa K. Lant.
Contributors: Lampel, Joseph.; Shamsie, Jamal.; Lant, Theresa K.
Series: Organization and management
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoicates
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780805851052; 9780805855821
Subjects: Culture -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.; Cultural industries -- Congresses.; Popular culture -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.; Industries -- Social aspects -- Congresses.; Culture -- Aspect économique -- Congrès.; Industries culturelles -- Congrès.; Industrie -- Aspect social -- Congrès.; Culture populaire -- Aspect économique -- Congrès.
Genres: Congresses.; Congrès.
Notes: Papers from a conference organized at the Stern School of Business of New York University in May 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: INTRODUCTION: Toward a deeper understanding of cultural industries / Joseph Lampel, Jamal Shamsie, and Theresa K. Lant; value: Observations on research on cultural industries / W. Richard Scott; value: PART I: THE PROCESS OF VALUE CREATION: Conflicts over creative control: power struggle on prime time television / Joann Keyton and Faye l. Smith; value: The genius behind the system: the emergence of the central producer system in Hollywood motion picture industry / Joseph Lampel; value: Maestro or manager? Examining the role of the music director in a symphony orchestra / Mary Ann Glynn; value: PART II: THE CHALLENGE OF POSITIONING: Game not over: competetive dynamics in the video game industry / Melissa A. Schilling; value: Playing to their strengths: strategies of incumbent and start-up firms in the web-based periodicals / Alan B. Eisner, Quintus R. Jett, and Helaine J. Korn; value: A question of timing: strategies for scheduling television shows / Jamal Shamsie, Danny Miller, and William Greene; value: ^PART III: THE NATURE OF MARKETS: Charting the music business: Billboard magazine and the development of the commercial music field / N. Anand; value: Are they playing our song? Programming strategies on commercial music radio / Jarl A. Ahlkvist and Robert Faulkner; value: Skating on thin ice: confronting knowledge ambiguity in the U.S. motion picture industry / Jamal Shamsie; value: PART IV: THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY: From technology to content: the shift in dominant logic in the Early American film industry / Candace Jones; value: From 78s to MP3s: the embedded impact of technology in the market for prerecorded music / Timothy Dowd; value: Silicon Alley.com: struggling for legitimacy in new media / Theresa K. Lant and Patricia F. Hewlin; value: PART V: THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION: Let the children play: Muppets in the middle of the Middle East / Joseph Lampel and Benson Honig; value: Surviving in the shadow of Hollywood: a study of the Australian film industry / Wendy L. Guild and Mary L. Joyce; value: ^Uncertain globalization: evolutionary scenarios for the future development of cultural industries / Joseph Lampel and Jamal Shamsie; value: CONCLUSIONS: Untangling the complexities of cultural industries: directions for future research / Joseph Lampel, Jamal Shamsie, and Theresa K. Lant; value: Promising and neglected types of studies on cultural industries / W. Richard Scott.