Transcript Monday, May 17th, 12-1:30pm Dean`s Conf. Room, 4th Flr.

The OSG Seminar welcomes
Candace Jones
Boston College
Strategic Networks in Film:
A Co-Evolutionary Perspective
Friday, Oct.22nd, 1-2:30pm, E52-598
ABSTRACT: "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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