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Competition and Media Performance: A Cross-National Analysis of Corporate Goals of Media Companies in 12 Countries
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Abstract Despite digitization and platformization, mass media and established media companies still play a crucial role in the provision of journalistic content in democratic societies. Competition is one key driver of (media) company behavior and is considered to have an impact on the media’s performance. H... view more
Despite digitization and platformization, mass media and established media companies still play a crucial role in the provision of journalistic content in democratic societies. Competition is one key driver of (media) company behavior and is considered to have an impact on the media’s performance. However, theory and empirical research are ambiguous about the relationship. The objective of this article is to empirically analyze the effect of competition on media performance in a cross-national context. We assessed media performance of media companies as the importance of journalistic goals within their stated corporate goal system. We conducted a content analysis of letters to the shareholders in annual reports of more than 50 media companies from 2000 to 2014 to operationalize journalistic goal importance. When employing a fixed effects regression analysis, as well as a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis, results suggest that competition has a positive effect on the importance of journalistic goals, while the existence of a strong public service media sector appears to have the effect of “crowding out” commercial media companies.... view less
Keywords
mass media; media industry; journalism; competition; performance; public institution; private broadcasting; international comparison
Classification
Mass Communication
Economic Sectors
Free Keywords
media performance; public service media; fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis; fixed effects regression
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 6154-6181
Journal
International Journal of Communication, 14 (2020)
ISSN
1932-8036
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0