2010
DOI: 10.1057/kmrp.2009.37
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From ivory towers to online bazaars? The internet, social media and competing discourses in the newspaper industry

Abstract: In line with the development of new media, newspaper companies are facing drastic changes in their competitive environment. Managing change requires both new capabilities and frames of thinking. Organizational learning can be understood as the increase of shared organizational knowledge through changing the social practices, which, in turn, consist of discourses. In this paper we investigate the Internet and social media related discourses among newspaper journalists, in order to better understand how social r… Show more

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“…However, even if no other inter-organisational changes took place, the newspaper industry as a whole was facing drastic changes during the period of data collection. Newspaper circulations had been in decline in many European countries, and the Internet and new forms of production and distribution were challenging the existing business models and value chains of the newspaper industry (Kosonen and Ellonen, 2010;Thomas, 2007). These wider changes in the industry were among the most important reasons leading John to pursue the cultural change.…”
Section: The Case Organisation and Research Methods Appliedmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, even if no other inter-organisational changes took place, the newspaper industry as a whole was facing drastic changes during the period of data collection. Newspaper circulations had been in decline in many European countries, and the Internet and new forms of production and distribution were challenging the existing business models and value chains of the newspaper industry (Kosonen and Ellonen, 2010;Thomas, 2007). These wider changes in the industry were among the most important reasons leading John to pursue the cultural change.…”
Section: The Case Organisation and Research Methods Appliedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The data collection for this study took place during a time period of complex and rapid changes in the newspaper industry. The print media was in decline and new forms of publishing and distributing media content were fast evolving (Kosonen and Ellonen, 2010;Thomas, 2007). Therefore, any assessments of the case company's financial performance during the time period are influenced not only by the change in the organisational culture and the move to the new facilities but also by the wider changes in the industry.…”
Section: Culture and Organisational Creativitymentioning
confidence: 99%