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CIMEL - Media & Entertainment Industry
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| CIMEL: Research Center for the Media & Entertainment Industry in Latin America.
Goal Our Research Center for the Media & Entertainment Industry in Latin America was founded by IAE, The Walt Disney Company, Nokia and Movistar to detect, promote and generate knowledge about the media & entertainment industry in our region. | |
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- The Center is a learning community: the Center’s endeavors are bi-directional. Companies propose research topics while IAE contributes its wide knowledge base to generate knowledge to address those topics.
- Its goal is purely academic: the Center seeks to generate knowledge for its members and society in general. It does not intend to be associated with labor union organizations.
- It focuses on industry challenges: research topics are identified by member companies and IAE based on challenges the industry is expected to face in the near future.
- It leverages on the identification of best practices: the Center aims to develop academic material (such as cases) to be used in learning activities. In parallel, it seeks to identify industry best practices.
- It balances a global perspective with a regional focus: while the M&E industry is dominated by large global companies, local realities differ. The Center aims to integrate these perspectives with the Latin American context in mind.
- It aims for multidisciplinarity: the Center seeks to respond to the concerns of media companies in general, instead of focusing on specific functional areas.
- It brings IAE professors and outside organizations together: IAE professors are at the Center’s core. They will seek to collaborate with foreign academics that possess regional or global expertise in given subjects
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| Academic Publications |
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Vassolo, R., Hatum, A. & Silvestri, L. , 2007. Coherencia sistémica: El enfoque estratégico de Disney en América Latina. Harvard Business Review América Latina , Marzo 2007: 59-67. AbstractLa búsqueda de crecimiento internacional con frecuencia ha llevado a las multinacionales a ingresar a mercados emergentes, donde deben navegar a través de turbulencias económicas, políticas y sociales. Los rasgos ambientales particulares de América Latina plantean una serie de trade-offs a las multinacionales tanto a nivel estratégico como organizacional. Estos trade-offs tocan las fuentes de ventaja competitiva de las multinacionales y afectan sus recursos y capacidades clave. Al mismo tiempo, condicionan su comportamiento y sus supuestos sobre la región.
Tras estudiar sistemáticamente el entorno de negocios latinoamericano, los autores han visto a los ejecutivos resolver estos trade-offs eligiendo e invirtiendo fuertemente en un extremo de la ecuación. Las multinacionales han desarrollado así capacidades valiosas en una dirección, dejando otras oportunidades inexploradas. Este enfoque, que llaman bipolar, resulta de aplicar soluciones globales prefabricadas a los entornos regionales, y la confianza excesiva en él puede dejar a las multinacionales más expuestas de lo que sospechan. Los autores proponen un enfoque sistémico basado en patrones de adaptación identificados entre multinacionales altamente exitosas en América Latina.
Una de ellas es The Walt Disney Company, que los autores han elegido como ejemplo de coherencia sistémica. Considerada generalmente una de las compañías globales por excelencia, Disney ha sabido responder a los rasgos particulares de cada mercado regional que atiende. En América Latina, la empresa emprendió recientemente un revolucionario cambio para acercar la organización a las realidades del mercado, resolviendo exitosamente los trade-offs en tres procesos fundamentales: definición estratégica, alineación organizacional y estilo de liderazgo. |
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Zemborain, M., Gita, V. J., 2007. Attitudinal ambivalence and openness to persuasion: A framework for interpersonal influences. Journal of Consumer Research , Vol. 33(4) March 2007: 506-515. AbstractOur two-stage framework predicts that during impression formation, individuals who hold ambivalent attitudes toward an issue are influenced by other sources regardless of their perceived reliability on the target issue. Less ambivalent individuals are presumed likely to check the reliability of the message’s source before accepting it. Experiment 1 finds that highly ambivalent participants do not differentiate between a more vs. less reliable source when forming impressions of a political candidate whereas less ambivalent participants do. Experiments 2 and 3 show that less ambivalent individuals’ attitudes can be influenced by less reliable sources if participants are unaware of this influence or if participants’ cognitive resources are curtailed. |
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| Book Chapters |
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Silvestri, L. , Vassolo, R. , 2009. Media & Entertainment in Argentina: Doing business in a fragmented society. In Albarran, A. (Ed.) . Spanish Language Media Handbook: Chapter 11: 151-170. New York and London: Routledge. AbstractWe explore the issues of vertical and horizontal fragmentation in Argentina by examining how consumers relate to media and entertainment (;&E) content and technologies. We focus on middle-market consumers (the most affluent at the bottom of the pyramid) and observe the way they relate to products and services, move to acquire them, and build aspirations and dreams. Subsequently, we compare their behavior with that of high- and low-income consumers. Results show that both vertical and horizontal fragmentations are prevalent: middle-market consumers differ no only in their behavior with individuals of different socioeconomic characteristics, but also (quite strongly) among themselves. Fragmentation seems to be tied to four distinct factors: consumers' lifecycle stage, gender, income level and degree of social embeddedness. Our findings have important implications for companies doing business in fragmented societies where the M&E industry is still awaiting major changes in structure, technology, and market offerings.
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| Cases |
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Silvestri, L. , Fragueiro, F., Rocha, H.,Vassolo, R., 2007. iBASIS (A). PE-C-088-IA-1-e AbstractEl caso traza la historia de iBasis, una de las empresas líderes a nivel mundial en transmisión de llamadas telefónicas con tecnología VoIP (voice-over-Internet-protocol) y hace hincapié en el original modelo de negocios desarrollado para Latinoamérica por su director regional Juan Ramos Taboada. Es un caso fuertemente enfocado en las tensiones entre oficina central y regional, por lo cual resulta especialmente atractivo para ser discutido en programas de alta dirección. |
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D'Andrea, G., Gallino S., Perkins, G.N., 2006. Village Cines. MK-C-010-IA-1-s
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Vassolo, R., Perkins, G. N., Bianco, M. E., 2006. Disney Latinoamérica (A). PE-C-083-IA-1-s AbstractEn 1999, Michael Eisner, CEO de The Walt Disney Company dio un giro en la estrategia que había mantenido en la década de los ’90. Su meta principal dejaría de ser la de crear la empresa de entretenimientos más grande del mundo, para enfocarse en consolidar la rentabilidad de la compañía. Eisner consideraba que la mejor manera de aumentar la rentabilidad iba a ser reestructurando los mercados internacionales. Fue con esta visión que en 1999 decidió crear la división Disney Internacional y nombrar a Bob Iger como presidente de la misma.
Bob Iger dividió los negocios en el exterior en tres grandes regiones y nombró a un presidente por cada una de ellas. Diego Lerner, fue designado presidente de Disney Latinoamérica. Tres semanas después de su nombramiento, Lerner le presentó a Iger una propuesta innovadora para reestructurar los negocios en la región. Una alternativa que intentaba adecuarse a la realidad de los países latinoamericanos, a las tendencias de la industria y a los objetivos de Eisner, pero sin embargo, iba en contra de la estructura global de la compañía.
El caso esta preparado para discutir la relación entre la estrategia y la estructura de gobierno, poniendo énfasis en los desafíos que presenta competir en la región Latinoamericana. |
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Tamanini, H.,Perkins, G.N. , 2005. Pol-ka Producciones S.A. . PR-C-098-IA-1-s
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Traverso Natale, L., Perkins, G.N., 2005. Televisión Federal S.A. - TELEFÉ. PE-C-081-IA-1-s
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Traverso Natale, L., Perkins, G.N. , Delfino, M.E., 2005. Diario Perfil (A). PE-C-122-IA-1-s
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Traverso Natale, L., Perkins, G.N. , Delfino, M.E., 2005. Diario Perfil (B). PE-C-125-IA-1-s
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Vassolo, R., Perkins, G.N., 2005. La Nación (A). PE-C-115-IA-1-s AbstractSobre los desafíos estratégicos que planteaba la nueva etapa de crecimiento que encaraba el diario La Nación a fines de 2004.
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| Conference papers |
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Zemborain, M., Ansari, A. M. , 2007. Choice-motivated changes in consumers’ preferences . Association for Consumer Research Annual North American Conference, Memphis. AbstractAfter making a choice people preferred positive features of the chosen options and negative features of the forgone ones, presumably to justify their choices. Follow-up results showed that, after choosing, consumers tended to attribute positive features to the chosen products and negative features to the not chosen ones. Based on these beliefs, people changed their attribute importance ratings such that positive features attributed to chosen products and negative features attributed to forgone products became more important. The latter only held when participants were highly confident about their attributions, suggesting a choice-defensive strategy to support their choices.
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| Miscellaneous |
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Vassolo, R., 2009. ¿Cómo se vinculan con el entretenimiento y la tecnología los sectores de menores recursos de Argentina y Brasil?. Ciclo de Management Antiguos Alumnos IAE Septiembre 2009.
AbstractEl entretenimiento y la tecnología demandan tiempo y dinero, dos variables sumamente escasas para los segmentos más bajos de la población. ¿Cómo lo viven y qué implicancias tiene para quienes operan en esa industria?
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| Research Seminars |
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October 30, 2007 - Martin Zemborain, IAE, Universidad Austral Zemborain, M. , Johar, G.V., Ansari, A.M.. Looking at the trees without missing the forest: Attribute importance bolstering in consumer choice AbstractDo consumers bolster products’ attributes evaluations to justify their choices? Study 1 shows that choosing a product may alter people’s products’ attribute preferences to make them consistent with prior choices. Study 2 shows that consumers tend to increase or decrease the importance of positive and negative features in a choice-supportive fashion based on their attributions regarding the features’ source (i.e., the chosen or the forgone option). These choice-supportive distortions only held when people were highly confident on their attributions about the features’ source. Study 3 suggests that these effects may happen only when consumers cannot find an external justification for not choosing properly. |
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| Technical Notes |
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Vassolo, R., Silvestri, L. , 2007. Atractividad de los Negocios. PE-N-111-IA-1-s AbstractEsta nota técnica integra los conceptos expuestos en notas técnicas previas acerca del desarrollo de capacidades y del análisis industrial de una organización para introducir el concepto de posicionamiento de los negocios en la matriz de atractividad, que relaciona capacidades para competir con atractividad de la industria. La nota técnica provee herramientas para analizar el posicionamiento de los negocios de una organización por separado y en forma conjunta, como portafolio.
Asimismo, la nota técnica trata temas relacionados con la atractividad de la industria en mercados emergentes, donde la formación de grupos estratégicos con negocios en industrias diversas permite realizar actividades como el tunneling (desvío de recursos de una empresa controlada a otra) y negociar en forma directa con el Estado. |
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Fieldwork: M&E at the bottom of the pyramid: based on member companies’ interest in getting to know and better serve middle- and low-income consumers in Latin America, the Center seeks to uncover and understand their habits regarding media products and technologies. The Center’s research project aims to determine how bottom of the pyramid consumers decide among available entertainment options, considering the effects of rational and emotional arguments and the influence of cultural traits. Because we anticipate cultural differences among equivalent socioeconomic segments across countries, the Center will also look at consumer behavior from an anthropological point of view. This research project is being carried out in cooperation with IAE’s Marketing Professor Guillermo D’Andrea, an expert in bottom of the pyramid dynamics in Latin America, and Celina Cantú, fieldwork coordinator.
Development of learning material for MBA and executive education programs at IAE. The latest case, Disney Latin America, traces the transformation the company underwent at the turn of the millennium, led by President Diego Lerner. Additionally, Professor Roberto Vassolo is writing a textbook for his Strategy class focused on the strategic challenges of regional and global media companies.
- Publications: the Center supports the publication of papers and articles in renowned journals and magazines. The latest, “Systemic Coherence: The case of The Walt Disney Company in Latin America”, was published in Harvard Business Review (Latin American Edition) during March 2007.
- Live experience: Bringing M&E companies to the classroom. Professor Roberto Vassolo has introduced his full-time MBA class to Disney, where they have designed a strategic plan for the company. Students have performed interviews with business line managers and presented their proposals to high-level executives
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