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Call for Papers

Focus Theme: The Impact of Financial Markets on Media Management Practices

Dear Colleagues:
JMM - The International Journal on Media Management
is leading forum for the communication of research data
and high quality information on all significant aspects
of media management.

Guest Editor: C. Ann Hollifield, University of Georgia, USA

Investors have been called the media industry's "third market." Among
major media corporations, the competition for investment capital has
become a major focus of strategic management, no less than the
competition for audiences and advertisers. Over
the past 20 years, however, eroding market share and growing debt loads
have complicated media industry financial management. At the same time,
changes in corporate governance and the global investment market have
raised investors' expectations of corporate performance and increased
the pressure on media executives to demonstrate continuous profit
growth.

This issue will look at how financial pressures and the competition for
investment capital are affecting media management, content and
performance. Articles devoted to the issue's theme will focus on
financial management, corporate governance, changes in global investment
markets and strategies, and their impact on the behavior of media
corporations and executives. The special issue will provide insight into
these issues based in a variety of theoretical perspectives and
methodological approaches

Topics:
   Manuscripts are solicited on topics including:

   - strategic financial management for media corporations
   - competitive conditions for media corporations in the investment
markets
   - financial decisions and media corporate performance
   - financial decisions and media content, both news and entertainment
   - corporate governance practices and media performance and content,
including the role of boards of directors, executive compensation
packages, shareholder disclosure rules, etc.
   - international economic conditions and financial performance in
global media companies
    - financial and securities regulations and their implications for
media corporations
    - implications of financial management and markets for new media
enterprises
Each issue of JMM is also open for submission to articles
which deal with topics of general interest to the media
management field. For further information, please visit the
contributors section on our website.

JMM accepts papers between 3500 and 6500 words in length.
Please refer to the Contributors Section for our templates
(Cover page and Manuscript Template) to submit your article.

Important Deadlines:

Submission: 30 August 2003
Acceptance Decision:  15 October 2003
Publication: Winter 2003.

For questions regarding the journal, the review process,
or the submission of your paper: [log in to unmask]

Sincerely,

Bozena I. Mierzejewska
Executive Editor

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Deadline reminder
30 May 2003

is the submission deadline for Special Issue
Culture and the Media Industry
Guest Editor: Lucy Kueng, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
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JMM - The International Journal on Media Management
Editorial Office:

mcm institute for Media and
Communications Management
University of St.Gallen
Blumenbergplatz 9
CH-9000 St.Gallen
Switzerland

Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Beat F. Schmid
Co-Editors:       Prof. Peter Glotz
                  Prof. Andreas Herrmann
Executive Editor: Bozena I. Mierzejewska

Phone +41 71 224 30 27
Fax   +41 71 224 27 71

email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.mediajournal.org/
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