Integrating media clusters and value networks: Insights for management theory and research from a case study of Mediapolis in Finland

Virta, Sari; Lowe, Gregory Ferrell

doi:10.1017/jmo.2016.56

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“…Despite the vast literature on creative cities, there is a lack of studies showing the measurement of cities' performance, more precisely in the dimension of creativity. Indeed, it is important to understand how the creative economy contributes to sustainable urban development [17]; to study the contribution of industries, by typology, to entrepreneurship in cities in the current urban context [18]; and to show the relevance of cities' contextual characteristics in the formation of creative industry networks [19]. Another gap identified concerns the need to carry out studies measuring cities' performance with a high number of variables and for large samples [20].…”

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Composite Index to Measure Cities’ Creative Performance: An Empirical Study in the Portuguese Context

Rodrigues

Franco

2019

Sustainability

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This study aims to identify the indicators/indices for measuring current cities’ creative performance and the individual weight of each in that performance. To do so, a review and compilation of theoretical and empirical indices already developed was undertaken, showing culture, the creative economy, and a favourable environment as inseparable sub-dimensions of creativity. This compilation allowed the construction of a Composite Index for Creativity, using a quantitative methodology, which revealed 17 factors determining cities’ creative performance, for the evaluation of performance in the Portuguese context, which allows monitoring the degree of implementation of some of the targets of the 2020 Strategy. The results illustrate that Portugal follows the European tendency of including creativity in its strategies as an economic factor determining growth. With scientific rigour and quality, the weights of each sub-dimension studied in the Composite Index were determined, this being the study’s main contribution. Other implications for theory and practice and an agenda for future research are also presented.

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Composite Index to Measure Cities’ Creative Performance: An Empirical Study in the Portuguese Context

Rodrigues

Franco

2019

Sustainability

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“…First, the two papers and the different literature make this study understand that much research has been done on the case study design method. However, the confusion on when to describe a study multiple or single case study remains unattended (Castles, 1996;Driver & Halligan, 1991;Virta & Lowe, 2017;Mckenna et al, 1978;Flyvbjerg, 2006). This understanding emanated from these authors' (Eisenhardt, 1991;Dyer & Wilkins, 1991) propositions, which inspired this study.…”

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Categorization of case in case study research method: new approach

Diop

Er-si

2020

Knowledge and Performance Management

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This study was inspired by two of the leading papers in the case study method: Eisenhardt (1991) and Dyer and Wilkins (1991). The work of those authors could be considered a benchmark for research based on a case study. Additionally, this research comes as a complement to re-categorize case study research design. After reviewing those papers, the authors identified certain misunderstandings relative to when a case study should be addressed as single or multiple case studies. This study reviewed both recent and ancient research papers that used the case study research design in their investigations based on this misunderstanding. Thus, the previously identified misinterpretation of case study categorization is the gap this study filled. For this study, the case study research design was to be re-categorized to understand which case study design suits which research study. Accordingly, based on the identified gap, the study used secondary data to re-categorize the case study research design through a literature review method. As a result, the study identified three case study categories: single setting case study with single sub-case, single setting case study with multiple sub-cases, and multiple case studies. Consequently, the result re-categorizes single case study design into single sub-case and multiple sub-cases. This study makes recommendations through the proposed approach that filled the gap identified in the case study design categorization. In terms of adding to knowledge, this study’s proposed approach will augment the optimal use of case study research design by management, economics, and other disciplines’ researchers in the future.

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“…Within this context, the importance of locality and spatiality has received a lot of attention (Cohendet et al, 2010;Drake, 2003;Lazzeretti et al, 2008;Rekers, 2016;Virta and Lowe, 2017), and not without a reason: as the outputs in the creative industry are based on individuals' creative talents and skills (Hirsch, 1972), such creative talents and skills often relate to the spatio-temporal spaces in terms of their manifestation (Godart, 2015;Lee, 2015).…”

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The four faces of creative industries: visualising the game industry ecosystem in Helsinki and Tokyo

Lehtonen

Ainamo

Harviainen

2019

Industry and Innovation

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Research on creative industries has been gaining momentum during the last few decades with contributions coming from diverse fields. This said, there is a paucity of studies to specify how and why companies in the game industry cluster. In this paper, we inquire into how individuals visualise 2 perceptions of their game industry ecosystem in Helsinki, Finland, and Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo is one of the oldest game industry hotspots, whereas Helsinki has entered the picture only during the 21 st century. Utilising drawings and their analysis and interpretation as our research method, in this paper we highlight the contested nature of ecosystems as arenas for collaboration and coopetition, shedding light on the diversity of ways individuals conceptualise an ecosystem. Our analysis yields four faces of ecosystems that help in understanding perceptions of clustering in the creative industries.

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Integrating media clusters and value networks: Insights for management theory and research from a case study of Mediapolis in Finland

Cited by 14 publications

References 51 publications

Composite Index to Measure Cities’ Creative Performance: An Empirical Study in the Portuguese Context

Composite Index to Measure Cities’ Creative Performance: An Empirical Study in the Portuguese Context

Categorization of case in case study research method: new approach

The four faces of creative industries: visualising the game industry ecosystem in Helsinki and Tokyo

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