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Dear Colleagues:
Please join us for a fascinating PDW on
Hollywood and beyond – organization, institutions and strategies in the globalizing film industry"
When: Sunday, August 13, 2006, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Where: Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Chablis & Picard - Lobby Level
A pre-conference workshop sponsored by OMT, BPS and IM divisions of the Academy of Management.
NO pre-registration required.
PANELISTS:
- Helena Barnard (Rutgers University)
- Giuseppe Delmestri (University of Bergamo)
- Mark Lorenzen (Copenhagen Business School)
- Stephen Mezias (Stern School of Business, NYU)
- Justin Miller (Stern School of Business, NYU)
- Olav Sorenson (London Business School)
- Florian Taeube (Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London)
ORGANIZERS:
- Mark Lorenzen (Copenhagen Business School)
- Florian Taeube (Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London)
FORMAT:
This panel is addressing the growing global diversity of strategies and organization forms applied by players within the film industry, in Hollywood and beyond. It is meant as an interactive exchange of ideas by people working on this and related industries; as well as those interested in using industries such as film as useful applications for theoretical questions, in particular as regards different international organizations and institutions. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, we are focusing upon innovations and changes within industries and their organizational and institutional preconditions.
Our panelist are experienced in different film industries worldwide and will briefly present results of their work in order to leave ample room for discussion.
BACKGROUND:
Recently, the creative industries have been increasingly recognized as vehicles of economic growth and exports. This has resulted in a surge of studies of their organization at the level of firms, clusters, or sectors. Not surprisingly, the film industry – arguably the creative industry with biggest cultural as well as economic impact – has been exposed to an increased interest. The organization of the film industry is undergoing a significant transformation towards globalization concerning both consumption and production of films. New film production clusters thrive (or old ones grow) in Asia and elsewhere, with organizational and institutional foundations different from those of Hollywood or Europe. Hovering over these developments are new digital distribution and production technologies. Hence, studied as a global phenomenon, the film industry is a laboratory of different and emerging organization forms and strategies in building and/or sustaining competitiveness, at firm, regional and national level.
However, the film industry is rarely studied thus. At the most basic level, we lack research describing and explaining the organization of film production in regions other than Hollywood, functioning along non-Hollywood organization principles and with different institutional preconditions.
ISSUES:
• How do film producers in non-Hollywood countries manage to develop films that can reach global markets?
• How is film production organized outside Hollywood and which institutional underpinnings does it have? What does it take for a non-Hollywood film cluster to be commercially viable?
• How do the emerging transnational patterns of value chains, patterns of outsourcing, and strategic alliances within the film industry look like? What are their preconditions? How may they transform the industry?
• How does globalization influence government or regional strategies of supporting the film industry?
For more information contact:
Florian A. Taeube – Innovation Studies Centre, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, London, f.taeube@imperial.ac.uk <mailto:f.taeube@imperial.ac.uk>
Mark Lorenzen, Copenhagen Business School, ml.ivs.@cbs.dk <mailto:ml.ivs.@cbs.dk>
Looking forward to welcoming you at our workshop!
Florian A. Taeube
Innovation Studies Centre, Tanaka Business School
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
+44 207 594 5918
f.taeube@imperial.ac.uk