Inter- and intra-city networks: how networks are shaping China’s film industry

Hu, Wen; Zhang, Qiangguo; Zhu, Shengjun; Huang, Yongyuan

doi:10.1080/00343404.2020.1807492

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“…Specifically, firms can search for and collaborate with capable partners elsewhere through network connections formulated in China's film industry (Zhang et al, 2018). Additionally, inter‐city and inter‐firm networks in the film industry can serve as channels for firms to learn and imitate successful strategies of their counterparts in other cities (Wen et al, 2021). In short, the fundamental transformation of economic organisation in China's film industry provides a wider network structure through which firms can accumulate capital, labour and knowledge across regions.…”

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Network dynamics and institutional context in China's film industry

Zhu,

Jin,

Wen

et al. 2023

Geographical Journal

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Existing literature has explored how different firm behaviours and strategies in different institutional contexts result in variegation in network structures. Based on those studies, this paper first examines how networks have been shaped by China's institutional transition in general and the process of marketisation in particular. Furthermore, we stress that the rise of networks in China's film industry has in return boosted the development of private firms and subsequently pushed forward the process of marketisation in this industry. Empirical results show that private firms have benefitted more from the complementarity between direct knowledge spillovers via inter‐firm networks and indirect knowledge spillovers via inter‐city networks, while state‐owned enterprises are incapable of coping with the competition effects stemming from inter‐city networks and fail to benefit from trans‐local knowledge spillovers in networks. Our main contribution is thus to direct attention to the interaction between network dynamics and institutional transition, which remains underexplored in the current literature.

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Network dynamics and institutional context in China's film industry

Zhu,

Jin,

Wen

et al. 2023

Geographical Journal

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“…The theory of social networks sheds light on how social interactions take place. Several studies have used social network theory to show how organizational networks affect innovation performance (Farrukh et al, 2021;Novoselova, 2021;Wen et al, 2021a;Wu et al, 2021). As a result, the social network theory is appropriate for explaining internal organizational network and green innovation synergy in our research context.…”

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“…Several studies have used social network theory to show how organizational networks affect innovation performance (Farrukh et al. , 2021; Novoselova, 2021; Wen et al. , 2021a; Wu et al.…”

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Internal organizational networks and green innovation performance in Chinese new ventures: the roles of corporate proactive environmental strategy and the regulatory quality

Sebaka

Zhao

2022

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PurposeSynthesizing from the institutional theory and social network theory, this study investigates factors influencing green innovation performance in new ventures.Design/methodology/approachThe findings show that the dimensions of internal social network; heterogeneous network and tie strength have significant positive effects on proactive environmental strategy based on a sample of 300 new ventures in China.FindingsThe results further support the mediating role of proactive environmental strategy on internal organizational networks and green innovation performance of new ventures. The study further investigated the moderating role of the regulatory quality as a dimension of institutional environment in China. The results show that the regulatory quality positively moderates the relationship between proactive environmental strategy and green innovation performance. Policy and managerial implications are further discussed.Originality/valueOver the past 20 years, green innovation has increasingly attracted the attention of policymakers and scholars. However, most studies have focused on mature ventures, and little attention has been given to how newly established ventures attain green innovation performance.

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“…O'Brien and Lane (2018) find that organizational diversity and dominance increase filming activity and the number of jobs. Wen et al (2021) similarly note the concentration of China's film industry as supported by cultural, economic, and institutional factors. Sceptics question whether states can create clusters that can compete with the likes of California and New York which have an infrastructure that has taken over one hundred years to build.…”

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“…Vang et al (2018) suggest that place branding can overcome problems with low visibility in small geographies. Wen et al (2021) suggest that inter‐city networks in the film industry can improve knowledge and performance in cities outside the major clusters.…”

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Creating and maintaining film clusters: Synthetic control method analysis of the enactment and repeal of US state film incentives

Rickman

Wang

2023

Papers in Regional Science

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The proliferation of US state incentives for film production led to numerous studies of whether the incentives affected production location, including case studies of key early incentive‐adopting states. The overall evidence on the efficacy of incentives is mixed. We carry out numerous additional case studies using the synthetic control method (SCM). A unique contribution of the paper is an examination of both the adoption and repeal of incentives. We also assess whether incentives have spillover effects between production and other activities within the film industry, whether spatial spillovers affect the SCM estimates, and whether the incentive effects are long lasting.

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Inter- and intra-city networks: how networks are shaping China’s film industry

Cited by 18 publications

References 42 publications

Network dynamics and institutional context in China's film industry

Network dynamics and institutional context in China's film industry

Internal organizational networks and green innovation performance in Chinese new ventures: the roles of corporate proactive environmental strategy and the regulatory quality

Creating and maintaining film clusters: Synthetic control method analysis of the enactment and repeal of US state film incentives

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