UNDERSTANDING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS AND INSTITUTIONAL WORK PRACTICES IN FESTIVALS: LUCCA COMICS AND GAMES

By Yesim Tonga Uriarte, Robert DeFillippi, Massimo Riccaboni, Maria Luisa Catoni

How are festivals managed within their wide net of temporal, social and institutional relations? In search of answers, we provide the summary of a case study that features one of the biggest comic-cons in the world and we argue that understanding how festivals maintain themselves must focus on understanding how these temporary organizations are able to effect processes of persistence, stability and change in the context of upheaval, continuity and transformation. Continue reading “UNDERSTANDING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS AND INSTITUTIONAL WORK PRACTICES IN FESTIVALS: LUCCA COMICS AND GAMES” →

April 14, 2020 0

DOES THE LONG-TAIL BENEFIT SMALL PUBLISHERS? EVIDENCE FROM THE FRENCH PUBLISHING INDUSTRY

By Stéphanie Peltier, Françoise Benhamou and Mamoudou Toure

Long tail

What does the long tail effect mean? In many industries, sales are concentrated on a few products in spite of the diversity of products available. The long-tail effect weakens the high level of concentration of sales. It compensates for a “winner-take-all” or a superstar phenomenon. But is there also a long-tail for small publishers?

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June 13, 2017 0