Business model innovation in cultural and creative industries: Insights from three leading mobile gaming firms

This paper contains an exploratory analysis of the business model innovations (BMIs) that firms in cultural and creative industries (CCIs) undertake along their life-cycle. Despite the role that creative and cultural and creative firms (CCFs) have in the economic development of industrialised countries, they tend to remain small and often fail due to industry-specific constraints and tensions, such as the lack of managerial capabilities and complexity in nurturing value chain relationships. However, there has been relatively limited scholarly interest into the specific conditions and processes that enabled CCFs to overcome these liabilities, and in particular into the identification of the business models they have adopted along their life-cycle. In this paper, this issue is analysed by using the concept of BMI, which sheds light on how the reconfiguration of the activity system through which a CCF creates, delivers and captures value enables the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities over time. This paper builds on an in-depth historical study of three leading firms operating in the mobile gaming industry, namely Rovio, Zynga and King Digital Entertainment. Three main results emerge from this study. First, in the ramp-up phase of their life-cycle, CCFs organize their resource architecture to build a strong and recognized reputation. Second, in the development phase, BMI is used to leverage new distribution paradigms. Finally, in the maturity phase, firms dedicate resources to innovate their product portfolios by providing platforms that support the development and testing of new creative ideas and solutions. Findings and implications are then discussed.     

鄱阳湖生态经济区饭店业低碳经济发展研究

饭店业要实现可持续发展必须在低碳经济发展模式下,这既是低碳经济时代的必然要求,也是饭店业提高自身竞争力的需要。创建低碳饭店不仅可以改善生态环境、节能减排,同时也可以降低企业成本、提高经济效益,为饭店业开辟了一条全新的发展方向。本文通过分析鄱阳湖生态经济区饭店业低碳经济发展的作用、优势和问题,提出了该地区饭店业发展低碳经济的具体途径。     

中国数字经济核心产业发展双循环格局研究——基于国内和全球价值链的考察

利用中国碳核算数据库提供的2012、2015、2017年31省区市42部门区域间投入产出表（MRIO）,分“京津及北部沿海”“东南沿海”“中部”“西部”“东北”5大地区,以“计算机通信和其他电子设备制造业”（数字产品制造业）和“信息传输、软件和信息服务业”（数字技术应用业）为代表,基于对地区产业总产出增加值的完全分解,刻画我国数字经济核心产业的双循环发展格局,结果显示：我国数字经济核心产业初步形成了以国内循环为主体、国内国际双循环相互促进的发展格局;数字产品制造业国内分工程度较高,参与国际循环程度也较深,国内价值链主要由东南沿海地区主导驱动,通过“大进大出”融入全球价值链,产业链相对独立性尚待提高;数字技术应用业以国内循环为主,地区间循环更为紧密,主要依靠本地增加值流出和出口参与国内和全球价值链。畅通的国际产业链循环促进了数字产品制造业国内循环升级,国内分工水平提升也促进了其深度参与全球价值链,但数字产品制造业总体上仍处于相对下游位置,需要加速构建安全稳定的高水平产业链供应链。     

高寒生态脆弱地区城市绿色工业选择与布局研究——以拉萨市为例

绿色工业是产业升级与转型的产物,是在新形势下保证城市可持续发展的新途径。尤其在我国高寒生态脆弱地区,还处于工业化的初级阶段,如何平衡经济与环境的协调发展便成为了首要问题。以拉萨为例,试图就高寒生态脆弱地区的城市绿色工业选择与布局展开论述与研究。从自然资源利用和环境影响评价两方面出发,运用层次分析法对绿色工业发展进行选择;同时对城市工业用地进行适宜性评价,并建立绿色工业空间敏感度指标体系,利用空间多层次叠合分析对工业布局进行定位,进而引导绿色工业的空间布局。     

Infinitesimal Firms and Increasing Cost Industries

This article presents a rigorous version of the basic model of an increasing-cost competitive industry found in many textbooks. In the model, firms are infinitesimal, which justifies price-taking behavior and a continuous industry supply curve. The industry supply curve slopes upward because of dispersion in the efficiency of firms. In this framework, the authors emphasize the role of the marginal firm. This role is not clearly emphasized in many textbook presentations of the increasing cost industry.     

服务业对战略性新兴产业的支撑效率研究——以东北三省电子及通信设备制造业为例

伴随战略性新兴产业内涵的不断丰富和发展,服务业对于战略性新兴产业的支撑作用问题逐渐引起学界的关注,但研究视角多是基于经验角度的定性分析。为在定量层面更客观分析服务业对于战略性新兴产业的支撑效率,以东北三省为样本空间,以电子及通信设备制造业为产业样本,综合运用DEA包络评价、灰色关联和通径分析的方法,从投资驱动的视角实证研究"服务业固定资产投入"对"战略性新兴产业经济产出"产生的影响。结果表明:当前阶段,服务业对于电子及通信设备制造业的服务支撑效率,因区域的不同而在DEA评价结果层面产生差异,但相对于生产性服务业,消费性服务业更具有投资的比较优势;今后阶段,应加大对于以租赁和商务服务业为重点的生产性服务业的投入。     

Family Capitalism within Big Business

Abstract

The article addresses central questions in the research of family business, corporate governance and the transformation of Swedish industry. The analysis is drawn from the example of the Wallenberg family in Sweden, an industrial dynasty of five generations. Ideas of ownership and overriding values are discussed in relation to pressures of change in international industries. In detail, the article deals with 1) the concepts of corporate governance, long-term active ownership and networking capacity and the chronology of successful family capitalism, 2) the pressures for change experienced in early post-World War II Swedish industry in general and in the three multinational companies in particular, 3) how the owners and top management of the three companies responded strategically to these pressures and 4) the extent to which the provision of capital was accompanied by industrial competence or if simple patience on the part of capital was sufficient.     

基于信息化的产业融合研究

伴随着信息技术的发展,产业经济领域兴起的产业融合正在迅速发展,已经出现了以电信、广播电视和计算机等部门为代表的产业融合现象。国内外学者都对这一经济现象从各个角度作了论述,文章主要从产业融合理论的发展以及动力机制出发,论述产业融合对经济发展的影响。     

战略性新兴产业的高端化:基于“链”的经济分析

如何避免我国刚起步的战略性新兴产业成为新的低端"加工制造业"?本文构建了一个基于"链"的分析框架,从产业链、价值链、创新链、服务链和生态链这五个方面,寻求推动战略性新兴产业高端化发展的政策取向和措施。根据比较优势的变化逐步切入全球产品内分工的高端环节,利用内需市场吸收全球高级生产要素,促使企业从加入GVC逐步走向主导全球创新链,大力发展知识、技能和人力资本密集的服务产业链,成为金融危机后时期我国新一轮国家竞争战略的逻辑选择。     

泉州老城区文化创意产业发展建设的思考

文化创意产业现已成为世界各国城市再生的主要政策,它的目的在于增强经济基础,推广城市/地域文化,提高城市行销与竞争力。泉州老城区的文化创意产业尚处在发展阶段,根据泉州老城区创意产业发展的现状,分析其发展存在的问题,并提出比较详细的发展对策是目前亟待解决的问题。