Resource Partitioning, the Founding of Specialist Firms, and Innovation: The American Feature Film Industry, 1912--1929

By John M. Mezias, S. Mezias. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Urban Studies, Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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Navigators through the storm: A review of organization theories and the behavior of incumbent firms during transitions (2017, background): “This opens up more of the periphery of the market to specialists (Carroll and Swaminathan, 2000; Mezias and Mezias, 2000; Swaminathan, 1995), and leads to a dual market structure that features generalists as well as specialists (Van Witteloostuijn and Boone, 2006).”
Balancing the Tensions Between Rationalization and Creativity in the Video Games Industry (2007, background): “Cultural industry studies on nonprofit professional theatres (Voss et al. 2000) and Hollywood’s film studios (Epstein 2005, Mezias and Mezias 2000) have also shown that the tensions between artistic and financial agendas are often resolved by the domination of one particular force— the pursuit of…”
Learning in Hybrid-Project Systems: The Effects of Project Performance on Repeated Collaboration (2008, background): “Prior research has outlined key characteristics of this project system, such as industry structure (Mezias & Mezias, 2000; Storper, 1989) and project participants' employment patterns (Baker & Faulkner, 1991; Bielby & Bielby, 1999; Faulkner & Anderson, 1987; Jones, 1996; Zuckerman, Kim, Ukanwa, &…”
A new map of Hollywood: the production and distribution of American motion pictures (2002, background): “MEZIAS and MEZIAS, 2000, suggest that, in 1929, vertically-integrated firms controlled about 80% of thethe mystique that surrounds its products, all combine market.to bring it into sharp relief.”
Filling Empty Seats: How Status and Organizational Hierarchies Affect Exploration Versus Exploitation in Team Design (2006, methodology): “…was the American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures (AFI), a decadeby-decade encyclopedic publication that provides product-level information on all motion pictures released in the United States between 1893 and 1970 using a single compiling methodology (Jones, 2001; Mezias & Mezias, 2000).”
Under the radar: Industry entry by user entrepreneurs (2010, background): “…of interview partners), Machinima users in the animation industry later introduced a new genre that can be clearly distinguished from traditional animation (Mezias & Mezias, 2000; Peretti & Negro, 2007) when they produced lowcost films for themselves or close friends (Morris et al., 2005).”
The dynamics of interfirm networks along the industry life cycle: The case of the global video game industry, 1987–2007 (2013, background): “Industries such as feature lm production (Mezias and Mezias, 2000), advertising (Grabher, 2001) and book publishing (Heebels and Boschma, 2011) are based on projectbased production systems involving creative and business-oriented entrepreneurs.”
Local Density and Foreign Subsidiary Performance (2006, background): “The strategic conformity literature deals with firms in a domestic context (Deephouse, 1999; Mezias & Mezias, 2000; McNamara et al., 2003), but the arguments can be readily extended to the international level.”
Cultural Industries: Product–Market Characteristics, Management Challenges and Industry Dynamics (2015, unknown): “Such resource partitioning has been documented in the film industry (Mezias and Mezias 2000).”
Superman or the Fantastic Four? Knowledge Combination and Experience in Innovative Teams (2006, unknown): “…(Hirsch, 1972), as in work on music (Allmendinger & Hackman, 1996; Bougan, Weick, & Binkhorst, 1977); book and magazine publishing (Levitt & Nass, 1989; Thornton & Ocasio, 1999); film (Mezias & Mezias, 2000; Miller & Shamsie, 1996); and radio broadcasting (Greve, 1995; Greve & Taylor, 2000).”
Agglomeration effects and performance: a test of the Texas lodging industry (2001, background): “Brand affiliation, or chain affiliation in our particular setting, is another signaling mechanism for quality discussed by Nelson. Firms create brands to signal higher unobserved quality.(4) Wernerfelt (1988) argues that extending an existing brand to other products is a credible signal of quality s”
Why the Microbrewery Movement? Organizational Dynamics of Resource Partitioning in the U.S. Brewing Industry1 (2000, background): “American Journal of Sociology 722 airline passenger service (Seidel 1997), investment banks (Park and Podolny 2000), law firms (Jaffee 2000), film production companies and film distributors (Mezias and Mezias 2000), and auditing firms (Boone, Broecheler, and Carroll 2000).”