Business Capabilities of Small Entrepreneurial Media Firms: Independent Production of Children’s Television in Canada

Public Policy and Independent Television Production In the U.K.

“…The fact of being in a small production company does not of course imply that success in unattainable (Davis, Vladica and Berkowitz, 2008). And some UK independent producers have found the disaggregation of the industry advantageous.…”

Business Perspectives on Work in News Organizations

“…Project-based work as typical in knowledge organizations (Ekstedt et al, 1999) is characterized by a specific time line and limit and by the possibility to break it down into subtasks (Meredith & Mantel, 2000;Lindgren & Packendorff, 2006). Although some research has been conducted on projects in media industries (DeFilippi & Arthur, 1998;Windeler & Sydow, 2000;Davis et al, 2008;Ekynsmith, 2002), we suggest here that conceiving project work as the very nature of all organizational practices, as Huemann et al (2007) propose, would shed a new light on news organizations and particularly on newsrooms. The production of news products can be seen as a project and each news product can be seen as the result of a project.…”

“…Examples in media contexts include project organizations in film-making (DeFillippi & Arthur, 1998), television (Windeler & Sydow, 2000), independent television production firms (Davis et al, 2008), and in magazine publishing (Ekynsmith, 2002). Project work, as a specific and time-limited form of working that can be broken down into subtasks (Lindgren & Packendorff, 2006;Meredith & Mantel, 2000), has a propensity to bypass drawbacks of bureaucracy (Packendorff, 1995) and can be applied as the key working practice to an entire organization as a whole, or only be implemented for selected parts of an organization (Huemann et al, 2007).…”

Production studies, transformations in children’s television and the global turn

“…production issues in US children's television (Bryant, 2010;McAllister & Giglio, 2005); with local TV production in New Zealand, Hungary and Qatar (Lustyik & Zanker, 2013b;Lustyik & Smith, 2010); as well as television production in Australia (Potter, 2015), the UK (Steemers, 2010) and Canada (Davis et al, 2008). A survey of JOCAM's output over 10 years reveals many important examples of scholarship from around the world, but few articles that deal directly with production issues or production scenarios that move beyond television, because production research is hard to do, requires trusted access, and tends to be dominated by experiences in the Global North.…”