Summary The annual film festival is a very European institution invented more than 70 years ago. As a research topic, however, film festivals have received surprisingly little and scattered attention within organization and management studies despite a mounting interest among film and media...

This article looks at frequency patterns of popular management concepts among scholarly and non-scholarly publication outlets. It analyzes differences in the general frequency patterns and reviews propositions concerning time-lags in the diffusion of management ideas in different media, using...