måndag, mars 12, 2007
CfP: Emerging Topics within the Media Industries
International Media Management Academic Association (IMMAA)
Emerging Topics within the Media Industries
Consumers – Products – Strategy – Management – Trends
Saarbruecken, Germany – 1-4 July 2007
Call for Submissions
Submission Deadline: April 7, 2007.
IMMAA-Vision
IMMAA (International Media Management Academic Association) is a yearly conference which
brings together about 30 media management professors from all over the world. The link between
the members is the spirit to push things forward and the interest in (teaching) media management
and the international media business.
Conference Theme
The IMMAA is focusing emerging topics within the media industry. Thus the focus will rotate
taking the most relevant aspects of the cutting edge discussion year by year. The focus for
2006/2007 and therefore the focus of the IMMAA 2007 reflects five different aspects of media
business: characteristics of media consumers, characteristics of the media and media products,
characteristics of media strategy, characteristics of media management and media trends.
Submission Domains
• Characteristics of media consumers: This research track focuses on media consumers – the
people who use media. The track is currently focused on three major areas: Media consumers
– definitions and perspectives, audience measurement, historical and critical perspectives.
Thus the track should give more answers to the questions: What do we need to know about
consumers? Are there gaps in our knowledge? Who benefits from certain definitions of media
consumers or media audiences? In which ways media companies use knowledge and data
about consumers?
• Characteristics of the media and media products: This track focuses the well known idea, that
media products are characterized by some special characteristics with impact for economic
aspects of the media firm, especially for the design of business models and the development
of markets.
• Characteristics of media strategy: This track deals with the question "What are the relevant
factors of a good strategic management in a media company?" The challenge is to find answers,
which reflects the media (company) specific rules, originality, strong media specificity, com-
pleteness in object-coverage, integrative power, and the possibility of evaluation.
• Characteristics of media management: Media management is the process of running a media
business. Therefore it deals with media management as that science of management, which is
related to "the media" and to the companies, creating or distributing these media. But the span
of the common understanding of what media management really is and which aspects have to
be considered is increasing more than ever. This track is looking for a common understanding
of constitutive basis.
• Emerging media trends around the world: Considering the failings in the media industry and
the dramatic crises in many media companies it seems to be very important to anticipate envi-
ronmental changes at an early stage. This changes that are critical for the success of the busi-
ness can be located especially in the areas of markets, consumers, products, companies, man-
agement, technologies as well as in politics and regulation. This track looks for contributions
considering emerging trends with impacts to the media industries and companies.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions may take the form of either theoretical or empirical papers. Concerning formal
guidelines IMMAA will not create its own and additional ones. In accordance to accepted inter-
national standards in the field of management, IMMAA is using the Academy of Management
guidelines. Therefore all submissions are to be written in English, follow Academy of Manage-
ment guidelines available at www.aom.pace.edu and have to be submitted not later than April 7,
2007 to IMMAA.SUBMISSION@orga.uni-sb.de.
Before submitting your manuscript, please check the following guidelines:
• Submission should be a maximum of 20 double-spaced pages of text, with no more than 10
additional pages of tables, figures, references and appendices.
• Your manuscript should be submitted as a Microsoft Word file.
• All text in the manuscript should be double spaced throughout, with a 1 inch margin on all
four sides. The paper size should be set to 'Letter' (8.5 inches x 11 inches). Manuscripts
should be prepared in Times New Roman, Font size 12.
Reviewing process
Since we address only a limited group of researchers, we would like to have a continuous review-
ing process. Each paper will be reviewed within two weeks after its submission and feedback will
send out immediately.
IMMAA planning committee and assistance
• John Lavine (Northwestern University, Chicago/USA)
• Tuen-Yu Lau (University of Washington, Seattle/USA)
• Lily Yuli Liu (National Chengchi University, Taipei/Taiwan)
• Evelyn Mai (Beijing Normal University, Beijing/China)
• Eli Noam (Columbia Business School, New York/USA)
• Robert Picard (Media Management and Transformation Centre, Jönköping/Sweden)
• Chris Scholz (Saarland University, Saarbrücken/Germany)
• Erik Wilberg (Wilberg Management, Drammen/Norway)
• Steve Wildman (Michigan State University, East Lansing/USA)
• Limor Peer (Northwestern University, Chicago/USA)
• Uwe Eisenbeis (Saarland University, Saarbrücken/Germany)
Questions and Support
If you have any general questions about the submission process or the IMMAA in general, please
contact IMMAA.INFO@orga.uni-sb.de or visit www.IMMAA.org.
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