[ecrea] CfP Journal of Media Business Studies - Special Issue on Strategic Management in the Media Industries

 Journal of Media Business Studies
Special Issue on Strategic Management in the Media Industries
Guest Editor: Sabine Baumann

Call for Papers
The media industry is going through a period of accelerating change, 
transformation and disruption driven by rapid technology developments. 
Obviously, these developments have profound effects on management 
strategies and industry development. Articles from media management and 
media economics scholars have studied the phenomenon mostly from 
empirical angles, while general and strategic management scholars have 
used media abundantly as a field of investigation for theory-building, 
but not for advancing insights about the functioning of the industries 
per se. What seems to be missing is a stronger scholarly exchange in 
order to tap into the mutual synergies by introducing advanced theories 
of strategic management to studies of media sectors.
The aim of this special issue on Strategic Management in the Media 
Industries is (1) to advance our understanding of the media industry by 
examining specificities of strategic management and strategy work in the 
media context, and (2) to shed light on the strategic approaches of 
media firms to manage the challenges and threats of a high-velocity 
business environment, in order to (3) advance strategic media management 
theory.
Specific topics of relevance to this special issue and upon which 
submissions are invited include, but are not limited to:
*	How do ecosystems in the media industries differ from other industry 
sectors in terms of their strategic management?
*	How does research on the specificities of the media industries 
challenge or expand theories in strategic management?
*	How can media firms build and maintain competitive advantage in a 
changing world characterized by increasing uncertainty, complexity and 
competition?
*	How can strategic management research in the areas of platform 
markets, networks, multi-sided markets, ambidexterity, sharing, and 
crowdfunding be applied to the media industries?
*	How can theories from strategic management explain particular 
strategic leadership challenges faced by media companies?
*	How can the strategic drivers of family firms and other ownership 
forms in the media industries be explained?
*	What can other technology-driven industries affected by vertical 
unbundling and industry convergence learn from strategic management of 
media organizations?

The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2018. Please mark your 
submission as special issue submission. Questions regarding the special 
issue can be directed to the guest editor (sabine.baumann /at/ jade-hs.de).
Full details about the journal and the prescribed format for manuscript 
submissions can be found at: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/romb.

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