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...

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...

[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....