This study aims to analyze the effects of open innovation on the figure of the Information and Communication Technologies Coordinator (ICTC) in the Higher Conservatories of Music (HCM) and Authorized Centers of Spain (ACSs). In some regions, the HCMs are regulated by the regulations applied to...

National life satisfaction is an important way to measure societal well-being and since 2011 has been used to judge the effectiveness of government policy across the world. However, there is a paucity of historical data making limiting long-run comparisons with other data. We construct a new...

This article focuses on mashup music, a form of sampling expression combining samples from two or more recognisable and popular music recordings into a new whole. It explains how platforms often regulate, displace and silence mashup producers, through a combination of content identification and...

National life satisfaction is an important way to measure societal well-being and since 2011 has been used to judge the effectiveness of government policy across the world. However, there is a paucity of historical data making limiting long-run comparisons with other data. We construct a new...

This article focuses on mashup music, a form of sampling expression combining samples from two or more recognisable and popular music recordings into a new whole. It explains how platforms often regulate, displace and silence mashup producers, through a combination of content identification and...

Music affects viewers’ responses to advertisements. In this study we present the findings of an experiment that investigates the emotional and cognitive reactions of subjects’ brains during exposure to television advertisements with music congruent, and incongruent, with the advertisement...

Diese Dissertation untersucht die Fremdfinanzierung im Zusammenhang der gesamten Finanzierungsstruktur von Gründungsunternehmen in der Modebranche im Vergleich mit den drei Kreativteilbranchen Film, Games und Musik, um herauszufinden, welche Faktoren die Entscheidungen der direkt Beteiligten...

Two theories structure debates on socioeconomic variation in aesthetic tastes. The “distinction” hypothesis, developed in France, claims that high-status people shun popular culture. The “omnivores” hypothesis, developed in the U.S., states that high-status people like high and popular...

Some economists assert that as valuable works transition from copyrighted status and fall into the public domain they will be underexploited and their value dissipated. Others insist instead that without an owner to control their use, valuable public domain works will be overexploited or...

This paper investigates the stock market reaction to a change in investor mood following the Eurovision Song Contest—an annual international song competition and one of the most-watched non-sporting events globally. Contrary to existing literature on international competitions, we find a...

We develop a novel measure of investor sentiment based on the valence of songs that individuals listen to. We show that our measure of music sentiment captures seasonal mood swings. We further document that music sentiment is associated with a systematic pattern of mispricing correction. This...

Newcomers often have trouble being taken seriously, or even noticed in the first place. This challenge, often referred to as the “liability of newness” (Freeman et al. 1983, Stinchcombe 1965), underscores the idea that to survive and thrive, new entrants must be recognized as legitimate by...

The influential piracy paper by Professors Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf, although mainly based on proprietary data, contained an “important complement” to the main results, consisting of four “quasi-experiments” using publicly available data. This replication examines all of these...

This study measures the extent of cross-border geo-blocking and the impact on product availability and pricing for three non-audio-visual digital media products (music, e-books and games) in the EU Digital Single Market. We find that cross-border access to online media stores is generally...

Users and suppliers of complementary products on digital platforms routinely face several non-trivial challenges due to an overload of information and fierce competition for attention. As such, effective management and governance mechanisms facilitating network effects and value co-creation with...

Purpose of the article: How online shop atmosphere (different background music genre) affects emotional states depending on different product categories; and how the emotional states induced by website atmosphere affect satisfaction with background music, e-shop quality perception and purchase...

We test the concept of contestability in the digital music player market. The theory suggests that the threat of new entrants keeps firms' market power in check. But Baumol and others argue that pure contestable markets rarely happen in reality. The portable music player market has been...

Sound and civic engagement -- The lure of audio recording -- Newfoundlanders on record : from the 1950s to the early 1970s -- A unique music industry -- The trouble with genre -- Sonic signatures -- Past and possibilities : audio recording and/as action -- Just because you can : the RPM...

Part I. Economic, cultural and social identity -- Chapter 1. Introduction. Music, from intangible cultural heritage to the music industry -- Chapter 2. The impact of the music industry in Europe and the business models involved in its value chain -- Chapter 3. The role of public policies in...