Globalization of the animation industry: multi-scalar linkages of six animation production centers

Yoon, Hyejin

doi:10.1080/10286632.2015.1084298

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“…As a result, specialized animation firms often employ hundreds of artists organized in large teams. The capabilities of such firms hinge on being able to hire and organize animation artists and direct them to customize animated content to the exact quality levels and aesthetics expected by consumers or clients (Yoon, 2017; Yoon & Malecki, 2010).…”

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How Early Entrants Impact Cluster Emergence: MNEs vs. Local Firms in the Bangalore Digital Creative Industries

Lorenzen

2019

Manag. Organ. Rev.

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This article addresses the question of how the emergence of a cluster in a global innovation system is influenced by early entrants. It does so by presenting an explorative study of the emerging digital creative industries cluster in Bangalore. I find that MNE entrants develop production and technological capabilities comparatively fast within a narrow range of value chain activities with limited spillovers to the cluster. In comparison, local entrants develop such capabilities more slowly, but within a broader range of value chain activities and with higher spillovers of skills and knowledge, as well as higher participation to building a local entrepreneurial ecosystem. I propose that these effects are moderated by the size of national consumer markets as well as industry context in the guise of project lengths and technological modularity. I also point to the role of global connectivity, proposing that local entrants, in particular, leverage international personal relationships for development of not only relational, but also production capabilities.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Early Entrants Impact Cluster Emergence: MNEs vs. Local Firms in the Bangalore Digital Creative Industries

Lorenzen

2019

Manag. Organ. Rev.

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“…Besides local networks, firms in a cluster should develop ‘global pipelines’ so that the internal networks can receive more information and technology inflows and that makes the ‘local buzz’ more dynamic. A case in point is the global linkages were found to be more important than local or national linkages for the successful functioning of different regional animation production centres (Yoon 2017). As Coe et al .…”

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Market Expansion of Domestic Gaming Firms in Shenzhen, China: Dilemma of Globalisation and Regionalisation

Yang

Chan

2020

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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China's domestic mobile gaming firms, such as Tencent, which has developed into the world's biggest gaming firm by revenues in a short span, have outweighed the leading counterparts in the Western advanced economies. Despite an increasing attention has been paid to the global investment of Chinese gaming firms, this paper argues that their market expansion has focused on the selected Southeast Asian countries. This arguement is developed through the aurthors' extensive field investigation and personal interviews with games developers and publishers in Shenzhen, where Tencent is located, during the early 2017 and late 2019. We showcase that the protective multi‐scalar institutions in which the Chinese gaming firms have dominated in the domestic market, have prevented the overseas market expansion of these firms. Although the government‐designated extra‐local inter‐firm collaboration has helped narrow the technological gaps and articulate China’s firms into the global production networks, the market gaps between the domestic and western economies have not been overcome in the expansion to overseas markets. This study sheds light on that the market expansion of Chinese gaming firms has stucked in a dilemma between globalization and regionalization. While China’s domestic gaming firms, particularly Tencent, have been evolving into lead firms in the global games production networks, their market power has been confined at domestic and regional levels.

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“…This applies to many creative sectors, but it is most evident in sectors such as film and animation. For example, Yoon () finds that global linkages are found to be more important than local or national linkages in the successful functioning of many regional animation production centers including Toronto, Montreal, and Dublin: Local linkages account for only 16.8% for Toronto, 18.6% for Montreal, and 23.3% for Dublin. Besides factors such as low production costs and skilled local workers, these trans‐local linkages are increasingly driven by market and financial considerations such as access to the external market and government financial support schemes.…”

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Rethinking creative industries research: Synthesizing the Creative Class thesis, clustering, and global production network approaches

2017

Geography Compass

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Identifying three prevalent approaches—Richard Florida's consumption‐related Creative Class thesis, clustering of the creative industries, and global production networks of these industries—to understand the geography and development of the creative industries in existing literature, this paper reviews the significance and limitations of these approaches. It argues that existing literature treat these approaches “stand alone” from each another, without acknowledging the importance of other actors and forces. Instead, these three dynamics do not function separately, but are interdependent and complementary. It points to a critical agenda for future research, arguing that it is the intersection and synergy between these three dynamics that together shapes the development of the creative industries. This paper calls for further research, first, to examine the interrelationship between the local and the global scales of the creative industries by adopting the Global Production Networks (GPN) approach and, second, to study the association between the consumption‐related urban amenities and the production of the creative industries.

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Globalization of the animation industry: multi-scalar linkages of six animation production centers

Cited by 21 publications

References 41 publications

How Early Entrants Impact Cluster Emergence: MNEs vs. Local Firms in the Bangalore Digital Creative Industries

How Early Entrants Impact Cluster Emergence: MNEs vs. Local Firms in the Bangalore Digital Creative Industries

Market Expansion of Domestic Gaming Firms in Shenzhen, China: Dilemma of Globalisation and Regionalisation

Rethinking creative industries research: Synthesizing the Creative Class thesis, clustering, and global production network approaches

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