Organization Science articles from May 2000

Organization Science archives from May 2000

Balancing Act: Learning from Organizing Practices in Cultural Industries.
May 1, 2000... ... . we are swiftly moving at present from an era when business was our culture into an era when culture will be our business. Marshall McLuhan Abstract The dilemmas experienced by managers in cultural industries are also to be...

When Market Information Constitutes Fields: Sensemaking of Markets in the Commercial Music Industry.
May 1, 2000... Abstract In this paper we outline a key mechanism through which organizational fields are constituted. We suggest that in competitive fields, the market serves as a magnet around which groups of actors consolidate, and that cognition of...

When Cymbals Become Symbols: Conflict Over Organizational Identity Within a Symphony Orchestra.
May 1, 2000... Abstract In this qualitative field study, I explore how the construction of a cultural institution's identity is related to the construction of strategic capabilities and resources. I investigated the 1996 musicians strike at the Atlanta...

Beyond Networks and Hierarchies: Latent Organizations in the U.K. Television Industry.
May 1, 2000... Abstract 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...

Resource Partitioning, the Founding of Specialist Firms, and Innovation: The American Feature Film Industry, 1912-1929.
May 1, 2000... Abstract Past research has established that large bureaucratic firms are less innovative than other firms. This reduced innovativeness is likely to be exacerbated when large firms engage in market control. In cultural industries, the...

Adding Value to Innovation: Impressionism and the Transformation of the Selection System in Visual Arts.
May 1, 2000... Abstract Valuation of cultural products tends to be problematic. In this paper, we provide insight into how valuation of cultural products takes place by describing the changing role and significance of different types of selection...

Linking Organizational Values to Relationships with External Constituents: A Study of Nonprofit Professional Theatres.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Abstract This study explores the organizational values that characterize firms in the nonprofit professional theatre industry, and examines the links between firms' organizational values and their relationships with external constituents....

The Entrepreneurial M-Form: Strategic Integration in Global Media Firms.
May 1, 2000... The "pyramid" headed by the single, all-powerful individual has become a symbol of complex organizations, but through historical and misleading accident. The all-powerful chief can maintain such control only to the extent that he is not...

Cultural Industries Revisited.
May 1, 2000... It is a commonplace in most lines of economic endeavor that those who process raw materials, transform them and merchandise the finished product receive the lion's share of economic rewards. The field of cultural endeavors is relatively unique...