Candace JonesBoston College

Strategic Networks in Film: A Co-Evolutionary Perspective

Friday, Oct.22nd, 1-2:30pm, E52-598ABSTRACT: "Time", suggests Douglass North (1991: 359-360), "is the dimension in which the learning process of human beings shapes the way institutions evolve." In this research, I propose a theoretical framework integrating institutional and resource-based perspectives into a co-evolutionary framework. I then use this framework to explain how two strategic networks in the film industry were shaped through the institutional resources of their entrepreneurial founders and how these initial choices about their resources and capability development vaulted them onto distinct evolutionary trajectories as they contested one another for dominance of the emerging industry. One strategic network was vanquished whilst the other persisted and laid down the industrial organization tracks to be used by industry members for decades.

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