In this paper, we use data from a survey of 151 French record companies to test the “long-tail” hypothesis at the level of the firm. More specifically, we test whether, following the “selling less of more” principle coined by Anderson (<CitationRef CitationID="CR2">2006</CitationRef>), record companies that have adapted to...</citationref>

In this paper we study the impact of a radical technological innovation on business models. Do firms react by adjusting their business models incrementally, through iterative steps? Or do such innovations lead, instead, to a big bang of new innovative business models that are all adopted and...

The effect of the Internet and Information and Communication Technologies on the Record Industry In this paper, we analyze how the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and of the Internet affects the record industry. We show that the record industry is impacted in...

[eng] The economic literature considers that in the media industry, production is characterized by large fixed costs and economies of scale. This idea is questioned by empirical evidence : it is often the case that the larger the audience for a program or a movie, the higher the production cost....

Using a survey on cultural habits and consumption behavior of 2,000 individuals, we study the determinants of physical purchases and pay-downloads in four cultural industries: books, recorded music, movies, and video games. We show that the impact of piracy on legal purchases differs among these...

In this paper we propose a model which shows that the impact of copyright infringement on music artists depends on the type of revenue that they receive (royalties from record companies, profits for self-released artists, revenues from live concerts). We then test the hypotheses derived from the...

L'industrie musicale est en crise alors que dans le même temps la consommation de musique ne s'est jamais aussi bien portée. Ces difficultés ont conduit à des politiques publiques défensives, concentrées sur la protection de la filière musicale contre le piratage. Pourtant l'impact du...

This paper analyzes the impact of music file sharing on CD purchases. Traditionally, two arguments are opposed concerning the impact of music file sharing on CD sales. On the one hand, MP3 downloads only reduces sales of legitimate CDs (the "competition effect"). On the other hand, consumption...

The present progress in the information processing technology is having a drastic impact on the telecommunications industry and on many public networks by creating a separation between two components: on the one hand, the network made up of the infrastructures; on the other hand, the command...

[spa] El mercado del teléfono - En el concepto de los Franceses, el teléfono ya no constituye hoy un lujo sino que tiene propension a convertirse en un bien necesario. La encuesta : « Propósitos de compras de los particulares », effectuada por el INSEE, ofrece una buena ilustración de la...