You Can’t Do That! A Case Study of Rural and Urban Media Entrepreneur Experience

Schultz, Cindy J. Price; Jones, Myrtle

doi:10.1080/14241277.2016.1274994

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“…Achtenhagen (2017) indicated methods utilizing a case study approach have provided particularly useful insights because of the ability to delve into historical family values and commitment. For example, Price Schultz and Jones (2017) compared rural and urban news entrepreneurial ventures in two case studies and found strong leaders knew when to launch, change products, as well as exploit niches. Zboralska (2017) conducted 41 interviews and looked at the ecology of entrepreneurship in the Canadian TV system.…”

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Staying alive: entrepreneurship in family-owned media across generations

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Zhao

2019

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Purpose This study provided a unique opportunity to analyze five generations of a small but continually evolving family-owned media organization with multiple media outlets operating across delivery platforms. The purpose of this paper is to identify variables that contributed to entrepreneurship and sustainability, holding the family business intact for more than 100 years. Design/methodology/approach This study used organizational ecology in a qualitative case study to interview entrepreneurs from three of five generations. Additionally, current employees, family and friends, along with letters, cards, published articles and financial data were included in the analysis. Entrepreneurial themes based on organizational ecology were identified including variation, selection, retention, as well as values, innovation, service and adaptability. Findings The company in this study began with the purchase of newspapers and start-up of a news service in 1904. By the third generation, entrepreneurial initiatives included additional newspapers, as well as a television start-up. In the fourth and fifth generations, the company evolved into what the family termed a “media development company” with a mix of revenue platforms including electronic newspapers, websites, radio stations, live events and syndicated programs. Research limitations/implications Limitations included sample size and focus on the perspectives of family members. More research is needed to identify the struggles within the family media firm and the more troubling aspects of a family company as indicated in the literature and their possible downside to both employees and family members who work for the short term or long haul in smaller, family-owned companies. Practical implications Sustainability of family-owned media organizations occurred through a balance of entrepreneurial activities and family values. Revenue flows resulted from adapting business models from selling advertising in local newspapers to providing funding and other support to local businesses gaining footholds. Market innovation, risk and community-minded solutions resulted in survival through stages of variation, selection and retention. Social implications For family media companies to thrive, entrepreneurship and adaptability are key. Significant contributions to theory from this study indicated organizational ecology is a useful tool in analyzing the evolution of a media company through stages of variation, selection and retention. After almost 80 years of operation in the retention stage, the company started over in the variation stage with new products including radio, internet, live events and community business ventures. Timely diversification was key as media and community landscapes changed. Originality/value Unique findings indicated sustainability came through a family-oriented approach to business that carried on throughout generations: a long-term view with a commitment to family values, the promotion of entrepreneurial opportunities for family and non-family members and an external focus as media development companies on the success of local businesses and communities in which they operated.

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Staying alive: entrepreneurship in family-owned media across generations

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“…The media industry has always been characterized by a high level of entrepreneurial activity, even before the digital era began (Naldi and Achtenhagen 2011). Risk (Doyle 2016;Picard 2004), uncertainty (Medina et al 2016;, innovativeness Price Schultz and Jones 2017;Van Weezel 2010), competitiveness (Gershon 2013;Mierzejewska et al 2017), and new business models (Gerpott and Niegel 2002) are among the specific characteristics of this industry that help align its operating firms with the entrepreneurial orientations (Emami and Khajeheian 2017).…”

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Rapid Internationalization Emerging Markets Multinationals from Latin America: The Case of the AJE Group

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González-Pérez

2018

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“…The journals with most publications are the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research and the Journal of Rural Studies, with a total of seven articles each, followed by Regional Studies with five articles. A high percentage of the articles (59%) address business activities that are not related to the agricultural sector, related, for example, to tourism [58][59][60], or ICT [61,62]. Publications focused on both farm and non-farm activities represent 29%.…”

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“…NC-HC5: Geographic location, linked to the concept of space [20,85] affects creativity (and this affects innovation capacity through HC-EC4) [61].…”

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Sustainable rural development (SRD) is an essential component of sustainable development on a global scale. Community Renewable Energy (CRE) has been advocated as a step forward in the progress towards SRD. While Northern European countries are experiencing a high development of CRE, Southern European countries lag behind. Considering entrepreneurship and renewable energy technologies (RET) as two fundamental components of CRE, through a systematic literature review this study identifies the antecedents or conditioning factors of entrepreneurship and RET exploitation in rural areas of developed countries, understanding that these same antecedents condition the development of CRE in these countries. The identified factors are organized around five capital spheres: economic, human, social, physical and natural. Given that these five spheres are not watertight compartments, but rather that their limits are diffuse and there are multiple interactions between them, we try to highlight their interrelationships through System Thinking based on the design of causal loop diagrams. The results can help policy makers and CRE projects’ promoters in the design of effective policies and strategies to foster the development of CRE in rural areas of developed countries.

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You Can’t Do That! A Case Study of Rural and Urban Media Entrepreneur Experience

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Staying alive: entrepreneurship in family-owned media across generations

Staying alive: entrepreneurship in family-owned media across generations

Rapid Internationalization Emerging Markets Multinationals from Latin America: The Case of the AJE Group

Understanding the Antecedents of Entrepreneurship and Renewable Energies to Promote the Development of Community Renewable Energy in Rural Areas

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