Essays on change in cultural industries
- Autores: Kerem Gurses
- Directores de la Tesis: Fabrizio Ferraro (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universidad de Navarra ( España ) en 2008
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Africa Ariño (presid.), Pinar Ozcan (secret.), Luis Vives de Prada (voc.), Juan Díez Medrano (voc.), Silviya Svejenova Nedeva (voc.)
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- Resumen
This dissertation investigates how industry practices and technologies change. Efforts to address how industry technologies and practices change encompass a great deal of industry change work. For instance, in recent work, technology scholars have focused significantly on the processes through which actors champion the technologies in a given industry. However, most empirical research has overlooked the political aspects of industry change. As a consequence, we may arguably end up with a rather narrow and partial view of why, when, and how actors change industries. In response, I try to add to our understanding of industry change by investigating howpoweful and resourceful actors initiate or try to impede processes of industry change. First, I study the activities of an executive that could change industry practices by managing dependencies by the help of his firms' practices and second, activities of industry incumbents, which tried to fight a novel business model with an emerging technology in their industries by championing a social movement. In doing so, I contribute in two ways, bringing power, agency, and politics in to research on industry change; and arguing about how firms may gain competitive advantage by political means, spanning across different research streams. In this dissertation, I advance theory by bridging resource dependence, technology and social movement literatures. I bring a more agency and process oriented explanation focusing on managers' and social movements' influence on industry forces, to understand how disruptive technological and regulatory changes affect industry dynamics.
secondly, an important aspect of this work is that it responds to recent calls for more organization studies to understand cultural industries better. The focus on cultural industries, a largely unexplored context in organization theory, and a highly regulated one at that time, allows me to study how managers and organizations in these industries cope with new technologies and regulation when these changes shift the very fondations of therir industry. In future research,studying other cultural industries' phenomena may give us insights not only about this specific industry but also about other industries.
