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CALL FOR PAPERS: Creativity, Coopetition and Uncertainty in Media

XI conference of the European Media Management Association


Organised and hosted by: The University of Porto in Portugal

2 - 4 June 2016


Best Paper will receive a Cash Award from EMMA!


Deadlines:

12 January 2016  - submitting abstracts

20 February 2016 - notification of acceptance and conference
registration opens

15 April 2016 - submission of full papers

30 April 2016  - Conference registration closes



Creativity, Coopetition and Uncertainty in Media


Media managers are grappling with a broad range of intensifying
challenges in markets that are characterised more by uncertainties than
stability. Among the most pressing are complex interactions that are
essential for achieving innovation because that depends on collaboration
in various configurations that include: partnership, alliance,
co-investment, co-production, interaction, participation, outsourcing,
and commissioning.  Such relationships are in some ways and under
certain conditions co-operative, and at other times in other ways
competitive.

The entrepreneurial character of media development and work is a focus
of keen attention and growing emphasis due to economic contraction in
legacy media and the experimental nature of online development.
Yesteryear’s comparatively simple business models are no longer as
profitable for many firms and competition is increasingly complex,
complicated, intense and evolving. Media policy is contested at the
intersection between markets and civil societies, mass media and
networked communications, linear and non-linear platforms, economic
development and political democracy, culture and commerce, consume
trends and corporate priorities. The issues are equally debated as
strategic issues among media managers working to make good decisions in
the midst of so much uncertainty in a highly pressurised environment.

The 2016 EMMA Conference will focus on developmental dynamics and the
complexity of interactions that characterise coopetitive relationships
between media industries, firms, makers, managers, consumers and
contexts (local, regional, national, international) in media systems in
transition to a still uncertain but significant future ecology. As
always, the conference prioritises contributions in research and
thinking that addresses the roles and implications of media management
in theory and for practice. The topics to debate in the conference are:

·       Management training and business education

·       Management competencies and development

·       Risk managing under conditions of uncertainty

·       Innovation and business models

·       Collaboration, partnership and network economies

·       Media hubs, creative clusters and networks

·       Media funding, ventures capital and crowdfunding

·       Media and journalism entrepreneurship

·       Media regulation and public policies

·       Media innovation, disruption and business models

·       Local, regional, national, international and global media business

·       Media strategies and corporative governance

·       Social responsibility, ethical and reputation in media products

·       Iberoamerican media markets dynamics (in Portuguese and Spanish
language).


Submission requirements

Submissions are invited as paper proposals in form of abstracts (800
characters maximum). All proposals will be peer reviewed and those that
are accepted will be expected to provide a full paper (6.000 words
maximum). The dates and deadlines are provided below.

The guiding principle of all conference paper submissions is that they
follow the style guide of the association’s flagship journal, the
Journal of Media Business Studies. For detailed information, authors
should refer to the ‘Instructions to Authors’ page on the publishers’
website (www.tandfonline.com <http://www.tandfonline.com>).


The paper should address the following criteria:

•                Relevance of the research to the academic field of
media management

•                Theoretical grounding and rationale for selection

•                Specification and rationale for selected research
methods and an overview of the case/s

•                Contribution of the results and findings to development
of the field’s knowledge base

•                Clear explanation of practical implications of why this
matters to media managers

All submissions should be uploaded to EMMA’s online submission tool:
www.media-management.eu/ocs <http://www.media-management.eu/ocs>.

All submissions will be peer reviewed in double-blind fashion by at
least two referees appointed by the conference’s scientific committee,
and each will be reviewed by at least one EMMA executive board member.


Important dates

12 January 2016  - submitting abstracts*

20 February 2016 - notification of acceptance and conference
registration opens

15 April 2016 - submission of full papers**

30 April 2016  - Conference registration closes


* Late abstracts will only be considered if there are any open slots in
the programme
** Papers must be submitted on time to be eligible for the best paper prize.

Full papers will be available online (with password protection) for EMMA
members after the conference. Possibilities for further publication
remain with the author(s).


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