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A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Sigurdardottir, Margrét Sigrún Doctoral Thesis Dependently independent: Co-existence of institutional logics in the recorded music industry PhD Series, No. 3.2010 Provided in Cooperation with: Copenhagen Business School (CBS) Suggested Citation: Sigurdardottir, Margrét Sigrún (2010) : Dependently independent: Co- existence of institutional logics in the recorded music industry, PhD Series, No. 3.2010, ISBN 9788759384121, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Frederiksberg, http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7992 This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/208738 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. 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No parts of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. 1 The air just tasted different in an independent label 2 ABSTRACT The concept of institutional logics, notably a choice between multiple logics, has been offered as a foundation to theoretically explain heterogeneity of organisation. The thesis focuses on how this heterogeneity of organisation is possible through a study of how decision makers deal with conflicting yet co‐ existing logics in their every day work. The field chosen for the empirical study is the recorded music industry, where two opposing logics, the artistic and the commercial, necessarily co‐exist. Through semi‐structured interviews, decision makers in the recorded music industry in the UK were asked about their work processes. Their descriptions revealed two very different ways of acting based on either the artistic logic or the commercial logic. The study further shows that even if there were some attempts to take both logics into account, all the respondents emphasised one logic over the other, but not the same logic, leading to the established major/independent duality in the structure of the field. 3 ABSTRACT IN DANISH Begrebet institutionelle logikker er blevet brugt som et fundament til at forklare, på en teoretisk måde, heterogenitet af organisation, gennem et valg mellem flere logikker. Denne phd afhandling fokuserer på, hvordan denne heterogenitet af organisation er mulig gennem en undersøgelse af, hvordan beslutningstagere håndterer modstridende, men alligevel sam‐eksisterende logikker i deres daglige arbejde. Feltet valgt til den empiriske undersøgelse er musikbranchen i Storbritannien, hvor to modsatrettede logikker, den kunstneriske og kommercielle, nødvendigvis sam‐eksisterer. Gennem semi‐strukturerede interviews blev beslutningstagere i musikbranchen i Storbritannien adspurgt om deres arbejdsprocesser. Baseret på deres beskrivelser blev to meget forskellige måder at handle på opdaget, på den ene hånd med grundlag i den kunstneriske logik og på den anden side den kommercielle logik. Endvidere argumenteres der for, at selv om der var nogle forsøg på at tage hensyn til begge logikker fremhævede alle de adspurgte en logik frem for den anden, men ikke den samme logik, der fører til den etablerede major / indipendent opdeling i branchens struktur. 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The idea and plan to write a PhD thesis started at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Iceland, where I was both studying and working. I owe thanks to a lot of people there for hiring me, teaching me, supervising me, and after I started the PhD, making it possible for my visits to Iceland to be ‘working’ holidays. It was further through a Nordic project on the music industry that I was involved with at the University of Iceland that my path lead to CBS, first meeting Mark Lorenzen, and through him the rest of the Creative Industries crowd. PhD‘s are not written without guidance. During the process of writing the thesis I have had three supervisors. Peter Maskell from April 2004 to November 2008, Jesper Strandgaard Petersen from 2005 to November 2008 and Eva Boxenbaum from November 2008 to August 2009. I owe Peter great thanks for giving me the freedom to write the PhD on my own premise within a theoretical framework far from his field of study and yet always being able to challenge the theoretical constructs I came up with. Jesper I would like to thank for accepting to join the process halfway through as a co‐supervisor and for sharing his extensive knowledge of new institutional theory. Last but not least I want to thank Eva for helping me refocus my work and keeping me focused the last few meters. There are many people who have listened to me present the PhD, in PhD courses and at conferences. Some comments push the work further than others. I would like to specially thank Ed Steinmuller, Gary Libecap, Anita McGahan and Eva Boxenbaum for their comments. To all my respondents, willing to give me their time and share their experiences with me, I won’t list your names, I promised I would not. But thank YOU, without you all this would not have been possible. 5 Andy Pratt, at LSE, I would like to thank for being willing to take me in during my stay in London, and for offering his guidance in the often tedious data gathering. Back in Iceland I have some thanks to Icelandic music people for insights into the industry through strategy meetings for Samtónn and MIDEM 2006‐2007. In particular, I would like to thank Anna Hildur for all her time and patience. At the institute a lot has changed since I started my work on the PhD. The department was then IVS (which I quickly learned no one could off the top of his/her head tell you what stood for). The offices were located on three floors on Solbjergsvej. Now it is on one floor in Kilen, with a brand new name, Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics (INO). The years I have spent at CBS have been very interesting; I have learned a lot, not just academically, but also about university administration. Thank you all. In spite of these changes some things don’t change, the ‘fifth floor’ still exists in our minds, and to all its residents and visitors I would like to say thank you for facilitating the PhD by a drink or two. As always in a group of equals, there are some that are more equal than others, Theresa, Lars, Serden, and Kristina – special thanks to you. In the spirit of the ‘fifth floor’ I would further like to thank Dominic and Mark for proving that you don’t have to take yourself seriously all the time to be serious about what you do. My semester in London also provided support and friendship. Åsa, Siri, Henrik, Njörður and Vala, thanks for making the experience more than just research. At Scancor (Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research) I got valuable feedback on the theoretical chapter towards the end of the writing process, I would like to thank all of you who took the time to read the chapter and comment. Then there are of course those that are most important, those who have been there when the PhD seemed to cave in on me.