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The Project Ecology of Advertising: Tasks, Talents and Teams

Grabher, Gernot·2002·Regional Studies

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In economic geographic analysis, the 'firm' usually is assumed, at least implicitly, as a coherent and unitary economic actor. More recently, however, the integrity of the firm as the basic analytical unit has been undercut by organizational practices which are built instead around 'projects'. By taking up this theoretical challenge, this paper ventures an empirical investigation in which the project features as the central unit of economic action. However, rather than assuming a substitution of the firm by temporary projects, the paper seeks to explore interdependencies between projects and firms as well as other more traditional 'permanent forms' of organization. Against the empirical background of the London advertising industry, the paper delves into the interrelation between projects on the one hand and, on the other, the agencies, personal ties, localities and corporate networks which provide essential sources for project-based organizing. By consecutively embedding projects into these different organizational and social layers, the paper unfolds a space of collaborative practices for which the term project ecology will be proposed. D'habitude dans l'analyse économico-géographique, on suppose, du moins implicitement, que 'l'entreprise' constitue un agent économique cohérent et unitaire. Toujours est-il que, plus récemment, l'intégritéde l'entrepise comme outil de base analytique a été sapée par des pratiques organisationnelles fondées plutôt sur la notion de 'projets'. En relevant ce défi théorique, cet article cherche à fournir un examen empirique dans lequel le projet existe comme l'unité centrale des mesures économiques prises. Cependant, au lieu de supposer la substitution des projets temporaires à l'entreprise, l'article cherche à examiner les interdépendances entre des projets et des entreprises aussi bien que des 'formes permanentes' d'organisation plus traditionnelles. Sur le fond empirique de la publicité à Londres, l'article examine la corrélation entre, d'un côté, les projets et, de l'autre côté, les agences, les liens personnels, les endroits et les réseaux d'entreprise qui constituent des sources essentielles d'organisation fondée sur la notion de projets. En ancrant consécutivement des projets dans ces différentes couches organisationnelles et sociales, l'article dévoile un espace de pratiques en collaboration appellé l'écologie de projet . In (wirtschafts-)geographischen Untersuchungen wird das 'Unternehmen' in der Regel, zumindest implizit, als kohärenter und einheitlicher ökonomischer Akteur begriffen. Diese analytische Integrität des Unternehmens als Grundeinheit wissenschaftlicher Untersuchung wird in jüngerer Zeit allerdings durch organisatorische Praktiken in Frage gestellt, deren zentraler Bezugspunkt nicht das Unternehmen sondern das 'Projekt' darstellt. Anstatt allerdings von einer Substitution des 'permanenten' Unternehmens durch 'temporäre' Projekte auszugehen, interessiert sich dieses Papier vor allem für die Interdependenzen zwischen Projekten und Unternehmen sowie anderen permanenten Organisationsformen. Vor dem empirischen Hintergrund der Londoner Werbeindustrie analysiert dieses Papier die organisationalen und sozialen Beziehungen zwischen Projekten einerseits, den Unternehmen, persönlichen Netzwerken, dem lokalen Milieu und den übergeordneten Unternehmensverflechtungen andrerseits. In dem Projekte aufeinander abfolgend in diese unterschiedlichen Kontexte eingebettet werden, umreisst dieses Papier die Konturen des organisationalen und physischen Raumes, in dem sich die temporäre Kooperation in Projekten entfaltet. In Abgrenzung von mehr etablierten wirtschaftsgeographischen Begriffen wie Industrial District, innovatives Milieu oder regionales lnnovationssystem wird für diesen Raum temporärer Projektkooperation der Begriff Projektökologie vorgeschlagen.

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Authors
Grabher, G.
Venue
Regional Studies
Published
2002-05
Volume
36
Issue
3
Pages
245-262
ISSN
  • 0034-3404 (ISSN-L)
  • 1360-0591
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W2048178374
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656
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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