With a rapidly growing sports industry worldwide, one may argue that sports industry agglomeration can play a crucial role in the economy of the sports industry. In particularly, the coupling linkage ...between sports industry agglomeration and economic resilience can be leveraged to promote both economic quality and efficiency. Based on data on three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta region during the 2011-2020 period, this study uses the entropy-weighted TOPSIS method, coupling coordination degree model, and relative development models to explore the coupling coordination relationship between sports industry agglomeration and economic resilience in this region. The results show that: (1) Sports industry agglomeration shows an overall increasing albeit fluctuating trend with inter-provincial differences. (2) Economic resilience has steadily increased, while the economic resilience kernel density curve generally shows a "dual peaks" trend. (3) The coupling coordination between sports industry agglomeration and economic resilience remains in a fluctuating, albeit coordinated state. These findings are relevant for the integration and high-quality development of the sports industry in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Branding has been described as the defining industrial practice of television’s recent past. This article examines publicly available industry documents, trade press coverage, and executive ...interviews to understand the place of traditional television network branding in subscription video on-demand (SVOD) portals as represented by Amazon and Netflix. Focusing on materials relating to licensed rather than original content and this content’s role within the US domestic SVOD market, two distinct approaches emerge. For Amazon, the brand identities of some television networks act as valuable lures drawing customers into its Prime membership program. For Netflix, linear television networks are competitors whose brand identities reduce Netflix’s own brand equity. Ultimately, Amazon’s efforts to build a streaming service alongside network brand identities and Netflix’s efforts to build its own brand at the expense of such identities demonstrate the need to think about contemporary television branding as an ongoing negotiation between established and emerging practices.
Project complexity is ever growing and needs to be understood and measured better to assist modern project management. The overall ambition of this paper is therefore to define a measure of project ...complexity in order to assist decision-making. A synthesised literature review on existing complexity measures is proposed in order to highlight their limitations. Then, we identify the multiple aspects of project complexity. We then propose a multi-criteria approach to project complexity evaluation, through the use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process. In the end, it permits to define a relative project complexity measure. Complexity scales and subscales are defined in order to highlight the most complex alternatives and their principal sources of complexity within the set of criteria and sub-criteria which exist in the hierarchical structure. Finally, a case study within a start-up firm in the entertainment industry is performed. Conclusions and research perspectives are given in the end.
Grouping vehicles into platoons is a promising cooperative driving scenario to enhance the traffic safety and capacity of future vehicular networks. However, fast changing channel conditions in ...multi-platoon vehicular networks cause tremendous uncertainty for resource allocation. In addition, the unprecedented proliferation of various emerging vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) applications may result in some service demands with conflicting quality of experience. In this paper, we formulate a multi-objective resource allocation problem, which maximizes the transmission success rate of intra-platoon communications and the mean opinion score (MOS) of V2I communication links. To efficiently solve this multi-objective optimization problem, we resort to a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework. Specifically, we divide it into a set of scalar optimization subproblems based on the weighted sum approach and model each one as a partially observable stochastic game (P-OSG), where each platoon acts as an agent and the actions taken by all platoons correspond to the resource allocation solution. We further propose a Contribution-based Dual-Clip Proximal Policy Optimization (CD-PPO) algorithm to deal with each subproblem, which is a DRL algorithm based on the actor-critic framework. The network parameters of all subproblems are then optimized collaboratively by using the proposed training algorithm and the neighborhood parameter transfer strategy. The desired Pareto front is obtained when all the subproblems are solved. Simulation results reveal that proposed algorithm can outperform the other algorithms in terms of the MOS and transmission success rate.
The Paradox of Breadth Kacperczyk, Aleksandra; Younkin, Peter
Administrative science quarterly,
12/2017, Volume:
62, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
In a study of artists who launched independent record labels in the music industry from 1990 to 2013, we focus on explaining the paradox generated when prospective entrepreneurs accumulate broad ...functional experience, which signals to resource providers mastery of different skills and access to various information and resources but may also undermine the legitimacy of their entrepreneurial claims because they are not seen as specialists. To resolve this paradox, we theorize that the potential legitimacy discount of categorical membership can be avoided when individuals are classified according to multiple categories simultaneously. We find that the transition to entrepreneurship is most likely to occur when an artist’s functional experience is broad but market experience is narrow: he or she has mastered a variety of skills but solicited few audiences. We also find that the paradox of breadth is attenuated—the potential penalty of functional breadth and the corresponding need to develop narrow market experience are reduced—when the entrepreneur has alternate methods of signaling legitimacy, including high status and moretypical prior work experience. Moreover, some audiences are more disposed than others to allow an entrepreneur to pursue greater novelty. Our findings suggest that mastering a variety of skills is not universally beneficial for aspiring entrepreneurs. In some circumstances, such mastery is best coupled with a narrow market focus.
Remarkable prevalence of cloud computing has enabled smart cars to provide infotainment services. However, retrieving infotainment contents from long-distance data centers poses a significant delay, ...thus hindering to offer stringent latency-aware infotainment services. Multi-access edge computing is a promising option to meet strict latency requirements. However, it imposes severe resource constraints with respect to caching, and computation. Similarly, communication resources utilized to fetch the infotainment contents are scarce. In this paper, we jointly consider communication, caching, and computation (3C) to reduce infotainment content retrieval delay for smart cars. We formulate the problem as a mix-integer, nonlinear, and nonconvex optimization to minimize the latency. Furthermore, we relax the formulated problem from NP-hard to linear programming. Then, we propose a joint solution (3C) based on the alternative direction method of multipliers technique, which operates in a distributed manner. We compare the proposed 3C solution with various approaches, namely, greedy, random, and centralized. Simulation results reveal that the proposed solution reduces delay up to <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">\text{9}\%</tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">\text{28}\%</tex-math></inline-formula> compared to the greedy and random approaches, respectively.
This collection of essays examines the ways that entertainment and media are created and consumed in conjunction with gender stereotypes, by examining the diverse ways that women are confronting ...these stereotypes.
This article explores the concept of the binge as viewing protocol associated with fan practices, industry practice and linked to ‘cult’ and ‘quality’ serialised content. Viewing binge-watching as an ...intersection of discourses of industry, audience and text, the concept is analysed here as shaped by a range of issues that dominate the contemporary media landscape. In this, factors like technological developments, fan discourses and practices being adopted as ‘mainstream’ media practice, changes in the discursive construction of ‘television’ and an emerging video-on-demand industry contribute to the construction of binge-watching as deliberate, self-scheduled alternative to ‘watching TV’.
We offer a new perspective on how cultural markets are structured and the conditions under which innovations are more likely to emerge. We argue that in addition to organization- and producer-level ...factors, product features—the locus of marketplace interaction between producers and consumers—also structure markets. The aggregated distribution of product features helps producers gauge where to differentiate or conform and when consumers may be more receptive to the kind of novelty that spawns new genres, our measure of innovation. We test our arguments with a unique dataset comprising the nearly 25,000 songs that appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from 1958 to 2016, using computational methods to capture and analyze the aesthetic (sonic) and semantic (lyrical) features of each song and, consequently, the market for popular music. Results reveal that new genres are more likely to appear following markets that can be characterized as diverse along one feature dimension while homogenous along the other. We then connect specific configurations of feature distributions to subsequent song novelty before linking the aesthetic and semantic novelty of individual songs to genre emergence. We replicate our findings using industry-wide data and conclude with implications for the study of markets and innovation.
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