Cultural Industries

13 important questions on Cultural Industries

Studio system in 'The Golden age' (Storper)

1. Vertical integration
2. Fordist production
3. Mass production
4. Production strategies
5. Entry barriers
6. Internal labour markets (long-term contracts)
7. 'Star system'

Flexible specialization in Hollywood studio's (Storper)

1. Vertical disintegration
2. Post-fordism
3. Differentiated products
4. New film studie strategies
5. Project-based production
6. External labour markets (short term contracts)
7. 'Star power'

What were the shocks to the studio system (Storper)

1. Paramount anti-trust case
2. Advent of television
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Define the characteristics of a flexibly specialized organization (Storper)

1. They produce a wide range of products for highly differentiated markets
2. Individual firms use flexible and widely applicable technologies
3. They balance competition and cooperation among firms

Name the strengths of a network & project-based form of organization (Starkey et al.)

1. Innovating
2. Coping with risk and uncertainty
3. Flexibility to deal with changing market demands
4. Integrating different types of knowledge and skills

Name the weaknesses of a network & project-based form of organization (Starkey et al.)

1. Performing routine tasks
2. Aligning with interests of the (other)organization
3. Achieving economies of scale
4. Protecting knowledge and organizational learning

Define the latent organization (Starkey et al.)

Forms of organizations that bind together configurations of key individual professionals in ongoing relationships that become active/manifest as and when new projects demand

grouping of individuals and teams of individuals that persist through time and a periodically drawn together for recurrent projects by network brokers.

Define haut couture and name the rules (before 1970) (Djelic)

'The creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing made to order for a specific customer'

- Employ 20+ people in production
- Present each season a collection of 75+ designs
- Present these collections with 3+ live models
- In house itself in special areas

Name the core competences of design houses from France, Italy and US (Djelic)

France: design/creation/haute couture
Italy: manufacturing/design/ready-to-wear
US: Brand management/design/selection of materials/outsourcing

Name the benefits of identification (Bhattacharya et al.)

Increased costumer loyalty and positive word of mouth and recommandation

Name the factors of member identification (Bhattacharya et al.)

1. Organizational and product charactersitics
2. Affiliation or membership characteristic
3. Activity characteristics

Name the implications for museum managers (Bhattacharya et al.)

1. Focus communication strategy
2. Strengthen identification
3. Enhance prestige
4. Focus on 'monogamous' members
5. Use price differentiation

Name the arguments against customer orientation (Voss and Voss)

Customers are often resistant to the idea of change, unable to provide creative input and unreliable in predicting what will be successful

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