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The Institutional Embeddedness of Project Networks: The Case of Content Production in German Television

Sydow, Jörg, Staber, Udo·2002·Regional Studies

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Project networks are an organizational form of production and exchange among functionally interdependent but legally autonomous firms and individuals. Although these networks are of limited duration, co-ordination of actors and activities takes place with respect to past experiences and future expectations. Project networks depend on supportive institutions in the surrounding organizational field to provide the regulative and normative resources within which practices are given meaning. In this paper, we explore the role of 'institutional thickness' for the performance of project networks in television content production in two media regions in Germany. We use GIDDENS', 1984, structuration perspective, to emphasize the dynamics and ambiguities of institutional processes. The analysis suggests that the two media regions differ in institutional thickness in ways which explain, at least in part, differences in the growth and viability of project networks. Les réseaux de projet constituent une forme organisationnelle de production et d'échange parmi des entreprises et des individus qui sont interdépendants du point de vue fonctionnel mais autonomes sur le plan juridique. Malgré la durée de vie limitée de ces réseaux-là, la coordination des acteurs et des activités a lieu en fonction des expériences du passéet des attentes futures. Les réseaux de projet dépendent des organismes de soutien situés dans le domaine organisationnel environnant afin de fournir les ressources régulatrices et normatives au sein desquelles les pratiques se voient donner un sens. Cet article cherche à examiner le rôle de l'ancrage institutionnel pour ce qui est de la performance des réseaux de projet dans la production du fond et de la forme dans la télévision de deux régions d'importance médiatique en Allemagne. On se sert de la perspective stucturante de GIDDENS, 1984, pour souligner la dynamique et l'ambiguité des processus institutionnels. L'analyse laisse voir que deux régions se distinguent du point de vie de leur ancrage institutionnel d'une façon qui explique, du moins en partie, les différences de la croissance et de la viabilité des réseaux de projet. Projektnetzwerke sind eine Organisationsform ökonomischer Aktivitäten von zwar rechtlich selbständigen, jedoch funktional interdependenten Unternehmungen bzw. Unternehmern, die für eine begrenzte Zeit--ein Projekt--zusammenkommen, ihre Zusammenarbeit allerdings im Lichte ihrer bisherigen Erfahrungen und im Schatten ihrer zukünftigen Erwartungen koordinieren. Projektnetzwerke sind dabei auf die Unterstützung durch Institutionen in dem organisationalen Feld angewiesen, die ihnen den Zugriff auf Ressourcen ermöglichen und Sinn und Legitimität verfügbar machen. In diesem Beitrag wird die Rolle von "institutional thickness" für die Performanz von Projektnetzwerken im Feld der Content-Produktion für das Fernsehen in zwei deutschen Medienregionen untersucht. Dies geschieht auf der Grundlage der Giddens' schen Strukturationstheorie, die die Dynamik und Ambiguität von Institutionalisierungsprozessen betont. Die Analyse zeigt, dass die zwei untersuchten Regionen sich hinsichtlich der institutionellen Dichte signifikant unterscheiden. Dies erklärt--zumindest zum Teil--die Wachstums- und Erfolgsdifferenzen der Netzwerke und Regionen.

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Authors
Sydow, J., & Staber, U.
Venue
Regional Studies
Published
2002-05
Volume
36
Issue
3
Pages
215-227
ISSN
  • 0034-3404 (ISSN-L)
  • 1360-0591
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380
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journal article
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en
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