DocumentCode
2421257
Title
To the Question "Does IT Matter?" Hollywood Answers "Yes"
Author
Cook, David A. ; Wang, Wenli
Author_Institution
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
fYear
2005
fDate
03-06 Jan. 2005
Abstract
Nicholas Carr\´s question "Does IT Matter?"(to the maintenance of competitive advantage) has been applied to many industries but the one that depends on IT almost exclusively to fabricate its product-motion pictures. In an effort to test Carr\´s hypothesis, we offer case studies of three distinct periods of technological innovation when the film business was in three different states of industrial organization-the coming of sound, the conversion to widescreen, and the advent of Computer Generated Imagery (CGI)-and conclude that Carr\´s ideas are applicable in some cases but not in others because the film industry is structurally and technologically unique.
Keywords
Acoustic testing; Computer industry; Electrical equipment industry; Hardware; Image converters; Image generation; Motion pictures; Production; Technological innovation; Textile industry;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
System Sciences, 2005. HICSS '05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
ISSN
1530-1605
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2268-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HICSS.2005.625
Filename
1385797
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