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Jennifer Johns - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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manchester s film and Television Industry project ecologies and network hierarchies
Urban Studies, 2010Co-Authors: Jennifer JohnsAbstract:This paper presents a film and Television production system theoretically framed using a network approach. The organisation and geographies of production are examined using the notion of project ecologies to incorporate non-firm actors including freelance individuals. Empirical findings from quantitative and qualitative data collection in Manchester are used to illustrate different hierarchical networks within and between production stages. The paper argues that inherent multiscalar network inequalities impact on the capacity for the film and Television Industry in Manchester to secure financing and distribution, and on the organisational logics of production.
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Manchester’s Film and Television Industry: Project Ecologies and Network Hierarchies:
Urban Studies, 2010Co-Authors: Jennifer JohnsAbstract:This paper presents a film and Television production system theoretically framed using a network approach. The organisation and geographies of production are examined using the notion of project ecologies to incorporate non-firm actors including freelance individuals. Empirical findings from quantitative and qualitative data collection in Manchester are used to illustrate different hierarchical networks within and between production stages. The paper argues that inherent multiscalar network inequalities impact on the capacity for the film and Television Industry in Manchester to secure financing and distribution, and on the organisational logics of production.
Tasneem Chipty - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Vertical Integration, Market Foreclosure, and Consumer Welfare in the Cable Television Industry
American Economic Review, 2001Co-Authors: Tasneem ChiptyAbstract:I examine the effects of vertical integration between programming and distribution in the cable Television Industry. I assess the effects of ownership structure on program offerings, prices, and subscriptions, and I compare consumer welfare across integrated and unintegrated markets. The results of this analysis suggest two general conclusions. First, integrated operators tend to exclude rival program services, suggesting that certain program services cannot gain access to the distribution networks of vertically integrated cable system operators. Second, vertical integration does not harm, and may actually benefit, consumers because of the associated efficiency gains.
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The Role of Firm Size in Bilateral Bargaining: A Study of the Cable Television Industry
Review of Economics and Statistics, 1999Co-Authors: Tasneem Chipty, Christopher M. SnyderAbstract:We examine the effect of buyer merger on bilateral negotiations between a supplier and n buyers. Merger may have bargaining effects in addition to the usual efficiency effects. The effect of merger on the buyers' bargaining position depends on the curvature of the supplier's gross surplus function: merger enhances (worsens) the buyers' bargaining position if the function is concave (convex). Based on a panel of advertising revenue in the cable Television Industry, our estimates indicate that the gross surplus function for suppliers of program services is convex. This result suggests that cable operators integrate horizontally to realize efficiency gains rather than to enhance their bargaining position vis-a-vis program suppliers.
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horizontal integration for bargaining power evidence from the cable Television Industry
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 1995Co-Authors: Tasneem ChiptyAbstract:This paper studies the hypothesis that large firms have more bargaining power with suppliers than do small firms, using data from the cable Television Industry. Employing techniques from the “new empirical lo,” the effect of owner size on marginal costs is inferred from the effect of owner size on observable product market choices. In the cable Industry, the downstream firms decide how many subscriptions of cable to sell and how many channels to offer in the cable package. lf large firms have lower costs than small firms, then large firms should be willing to supply more than small firms, at all prices. The effects of bargaining power are identified separately from the effects of scale economies by exploiting the structure of the cable Industry. Scale economies, in the cable Industry, are likely to stem from regional size, while bargaining power is likely to stem from national size. By controlling for regional size, estimates of the effect of owner national size on the willingness to supply cable subscriptions and to offer channels indicate that large downstream firms offer significantly more subscriptions and channels at all prices than do small downstream firms. These results provide some of the first systematic, Industry-specific, evidence consistent with the bargaining-power hypothesis.
Ken Starkey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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beyond networks and hierarchies latent organizations in the u k Television Industry
Organization Science, 2000Co-Authors: Ken Starkey, Christopher Barnatt, Sue TempestAbstract:Since the mid 1980s, organization theorists have highlighted the emergence of the networked model of organization as a response to global competition and pressures for increased market flexibility. Cultural industries have not been immune from this development. In this paper, we examine the shift from hierarchy to network in the U.K. Television Industry. We argue that an important result of this disaggregation is the emergence oflatent organization, groupings of individuals and teams of individuals that persist through time and are periodically drawn together for recurrent projects by network brokers who either buy in programmes for publisher-broadcasters or who draw together those artists and technicians who actually produce them. In conclusion, we note how latent organizations may become increasingly important foreffective cultural Industry production, and in particular how they may provide stable points of reference and recurring work projects for those many individuals now working outside of large, vertically integrated producer-broadcasters.
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The Emergence of Flexible Networks in the UK Television Industry
British Journal of Management, 1994Co-Authors: Christopher Barnatt, Ken StarkeyAbstract:SUMMARY ‘Flexibility’ became a management buzz word in the mid-to-late 1980s. Environmental pressures drove firms in many industries towards more flexible structures – away from internal, classical hierarchies towards agent networks brought together on individual project-task grounds. The goal of many organizations, according to proponents of this trend, became that of seeking ‘flexible specialization’– integrating specialist resources in a dynamic, flexible fashion. Critics of the drive towards flexibility argue that the phenomenon has been overemphasized, and that large-scale bureaucracies geared for mass production are still the dominant structural form. This paper overviews the arguments concerning flexibility and related arguments concerning the emergence of networked forms of organization. Flexibility trends within the UK Television Industry are then explored to illustrate the emergence of ‘flexible specialization’ and a ‘dynamic network’ form of organization. Television thus serves as an important counter-factual to the dismissive claims of the critics of flexibility.
Christopher M. Snyder - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Role of Firm Size in Bilateral Bargaining: A Study of the Cable Television Industry
Review of Economics and Statistics, 1999Co-Authors: Tasneem Chipty, Christopher M. SnyderAbstract:We examine the effect of buyer merger on bilateral negotiations between a supplier and n buyers. Merger may have bargaining effects in addition to the usual efficiency effects. The effect of merger on the buyers' bargaining position depends on the curvature of the supplier's gross surplus function: merger enhances (worsens) the buyers' bargaining position if the function is concave (convex). Based on a panel of advertising revenue in the cable Television Industry, our estimates indicate that the gross surplus function for suppliers of program services is convex. This result suggests that cable operators integrate horizontally to realize efficiency gains rather than to enhance their bargaining position vis-a-vis program suppliers.
Christopher Barnatt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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beyond networks and hierarchies latent organizations in the u k Television Industry
Organization Science, 2000Co-Authors: Ken Starkey, Christopher Barnatt, Sue TempestAbstract:Since the mid 1980s, organization theorists have highlighted the emergence of the networked model of organization as a response to global competition and pressures for increased market flexibility. Cultural industries have not been immune from this development. In this paper, we examine the shift from hierarchy to network in the U.K. Television Industry. We argue that an important result of this disaggregation is the emergence oflatent organization, groupings of individuals and teams of individuals that persist through time and are periodically drawn together for recurrent projects by network brokers who either buy in programmes for publisher-broadcasters or who draw together those artists and technicians who actually produce them. In conclusion, we note how latent organizations may become increasingly important foreffective cultural Industry production, and in particular how they may provide stable points of reference and recurring work projects for those many individuals now working outside of large, vertically integrated producer-broadcasters.
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The Emergence of Flexible Networks in the UK Television Industry
British Journal of Management, 1994Co-Authors: Christopher Barnatt, Ken StarkeyAbstract:SUMMARY ‘Flexibility’ became a management buzz word in the mid-to-late 1980s. Environmental pressures drove firms in many industries towards more flexible structures – away from internal, classical hierarchies towards agent networks brought together on individual project-task grounds. The goal of many organizations, according to proponents of this trend, became that of seeking ‘flexible specialization’– integrating specialist resources in a dynamic, flexible fashion. Critics of the drive towards flexibility argue that the phenomenon has been overemphasized, and that large-scale bureaucracies geared for mass production are still the dominant structural form. This paper overviews the arguments concerning flexibility and related arguments concerning the emergence of networked forms of organization. Flexibility trends within the UK Television Industry are then explored to illustrate the emergence of ‘flexible specialization’ and a ‘dynamic network’ form of organization. Television thus serves as an important counter-factual to the dismissive claims of the critics of flexibility.
