Introduction: What’s So Special About Media Management?

A Longitudinal Study on the Perceived Roles of IT and the Corporate IT Function with Influences on CIOs Work Equilibria in a Media Company

“…New actors such as Amazon, Apple, Google and telecom operators, to name but a few, have entered media industry markets. This has further accelerated changes in the modus operandi of the media industry value chains and market structures [27]. Many traditional media industry organizations are struggling with lower revenues and margins due to this rapid growth in digital products and services.…”

MENA Region Transformed Media Environment and Media Convergence. UAE Case Study

“…In principle, the converged media addresses the concerns of the organization regarding new product development, market entry techniques, jointventure management, and the establishment of brands (Latzer, n.d., Al-Jenaibi, 2014). Such initiatives are guided by the existing regulatory policies, social environments, and the economic features for operations (Lowe, 2016).…”

“…As such, it focuses on the investor returns along the lenses of financial markets while controlling a number of resources injected into the newsrooms by the public media. It affects the product qualities of the entertainment or news as well as other aspects of content production (Lowe, 2016). Additionally, the organizational structures of the converged media also affect the priorities and professional values of the news managers.…”

The practice of shared inquiry: how actors manageforstrategy emergence

“…This is particularly the case in the media industry, where companies are transforming towards an open future. This future brings new products, business models and cultural practices (Achtenhagen, 2017;Deuze, 2012;Evens, Raats, & von Rimscha, 2018;Küng, 2017a;Lowe, 2016;Mierzejewska & Shaver, 2014;Wirtz & Elsäßer, 2017) and drives organizations to become more entrepreneurial (Will, Brüntje, & Gossel, 2016) and more adaptive (Baumann, 2013). Essentially, this rapid and continuous change, which characterizes both the strategic environment and internal structures, workprocesses and practices of media organizations (Daniels & Hollifield, 2002;Ekdale, Singer, Tully, & Harmsen, 2015;Järventie-Thesleff, Moisander, & Villi, 2014;Picard, 2009), makes traditional approaches to strategic planning often quite ineffective.…”