Institutional Assets and Competitive Advantages of French over U.S. Cinema, 1895-1914

Ghertman, Michel; Hadida, Allègre L.

doi:10.1080/00208825.2005.11043737

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“…Their divergent goals create frictions (Alvarez et al . 2004; Farchy 1999) and confirm the existence of higher‐order institutional factors likely to alter the relative importance of art and business in cultural projects across time and space (Barrere and Santagata 1999; Ghertman and Hadida 2005). They reinforce the conceptual differences between the artistic and commercial dimensions of performance and the importance of acknowledging both simultaneously.…”

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Motion picture performance: A review and research agenda

Hadida

2009

Int J Management Reviews

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This paper provides a comprehensive literature review of empirical studies of motion picture performance published from 1977 to 2006 inclusive in the following five disciplines of the social sciences: strategy, organization theory, marketing, cultural economics and sociology. It introduces a novel framework which organizes the various dimensions and explanatory factors of movie performance into five distinct categories and underscores their relationships. The paper, which uses this model as a roadmap for discussions of film success, serves two complementary purposes. First, it clarifies the current state of the literature, stresses core contributions and exposes limitations in existing research by emphasizing hitherto neglected independent explanatory factors, dependent dimensions and correlations between them. Second, it introduces five conceptual, methodological and empirical suggestions for further cinema performance research aimed at addressing these limitations and, accordingly, at providing better accounts of motion picture performance in view of the fast-changing conditions of cinema production, marketing and consumption.

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Motion picture performance: A review and research agenda

Hadida

2009

Int J Management Reviews

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“…By contrast, the film producer is a business project manager contractually responsible for the completion of the film within set financial, location and time constraints, and for estimating its commercial success. This polarization of logics is reinforced in France for historical, cultural, and legal reasons (see Appendix A and Ghertman and Hadida, 2005), hence the present article's choice of setting.…”

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Logic combination and performance across occupational communities: The case of French film directors

Durand

Hadida

2016

Journal of Business Research

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This article analyzes the effects of logic combination on cultural entrepreneurs' performance in both their original (artistic) and new (business) occupational communities. An analysis of the impact of the director-producer logic combination on artistic and commercial performance in French cinema confirms an asymmetry in outcomes: (1) although performance in the original artistic community is impaired by repeated logic combination (receiving less awards), (2) performance in the new business community benefits from logic combination (increased box office returns) as long as directors remain close to the boundary separating their original and new occupational communities.

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“…Her study however focuses on issues of social isomorphism, conformity and stability within the organization (as per DiMaggio & Powell, 1983), rather than on the interactions between institutions and strategic assets. Lastly, Ghertman and Hadida (2005) model the shift in competitive advantage from early French cinema entrepreneurs over to their U.S. counterparts as a consequence of the interplay of diverging institutional environments, governance structures and strategic assets in the two countries. In particular, they illustrate the damaging economic impact of several institutional decisions taken by French governments before World War I on the local film industry.…”

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Institutions, assets combinations, and film performance: A U.S.–French comparison.

Hadida¹

2013

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Is the relative contribution of film strategic assets to commercial success and creative achievement similar across countries, or does it vary depending on national institutional incentives? This article combines the new institutional economics (NIE) and resource-based view (RBV) approaches to address this question. Hypotheses taking into account the specificities of cinema projects and institutional differences between the U.S.A. and France, two countries respectively ruled by common law-and civil law-based intellectual property regimes and their associated social practices, are developed and tested using structural equation modeling. Results reveal a different hierarchy of strategic assets in the two countries, with the infiuence of producers' commercial track record on commercial performance more important in common law-based U.S.A. than in civil law-based France, and creative achievement more prominent in France than in the U.S.A. These differences point to the existence of coherent institutional, social, and industrial systems of cinema production, consumption, and evaluation in the U.S.A. and France that NIE or RBV alone would not have unveiled. Ultimately, they reveal that institutional settings do condition the nature of film as an art form and the asset combinations associated with commercial success and creative achievement in both countries.

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Institutional Assets and Competitive Advantages of French over U.S. Cinema, 1895-1914

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

Motion picture performance: A review and research agenda

Motion picture performance: A review and research agenda

Logic combination and performance across occupational communities: The case of French film directors

Institutions, assets combinations, and film performance: A U.S.–French comparison.

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