Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 208-230).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-95).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-128).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-185).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Union Institute, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-67).

Thesis (doctoral)--Kyoto University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-208).

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, August, 2004. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-159)

This dissertation investigates the nature of Korean media giants among members of Asian media conglomerates in the era of media marketization. Since the 1980s, each state in Asia has adopted neoliberal media laws and policies that have made its media systems more market-driven. This neoliberal media reform led to the restructuring of media systems from state-controlled systems to profit-oriented ones and facilitating the emergence of Asian media conglomerates. However, scholarship on the nature of Asian media giants has been sparse in critical media studies. Thus, I conduct a case study to explore the nature of Asian media giants with a focus on the interplay between media ownership and media markets in order to determine the major beneficiaries of Asian media marketization. I focus on the three Korean media conglomerates of Samsung, CJ and JoongAng Ilbo groups during the period from 1998 to 2012 when the Korean state applied the neoliberal media mode to the Korean media systems. Utilizing the theoretical approach of political economy of communication, I examine three points: (1) the relationship between the era of neoliberal media and the structures of four media markets (e.g., advertising, daily newspaper, cable television and film); (2) the interconnections among media expansions, media ownership and informal ties (e.g., blood and marriage ties); and (3) the relationship between the changed structures of those four media markets and corporate censorship of the three chaebol groups. To address these questions, I used both institutional and corporate profiling techniques and then analyzed both governmental and secondary documents, including those covering structures of media markets, media ownership, boards of directors, media expansions and emergent issues in the information and entertainment markets. Consequently, my analysis finds that neoliberal media laws and policies led to forming centralized market structures controlled by chaebol groups with connections to Western media conglomerates and/or foreign capital. Also, I find that the Lee family members used family connections to expand their media businesses and control multiple media operations, thereby becoming the media emperor in Korea. Finally, my analysis shows that a media-oriented ideology has rarely guaranteed free competition among market players but has instead led to increasing the market polarization between a few market controllers and many independent media companies. In other words, my study indicates that the neoliberal media mode allowed family capitalists in Korea with foreign capital to control the structures of media markets.

Orientador: José Paulo Alves Fusco / Banca: Ethel Cristina Chiari da Silva / Banca: Otávio José de Oliveira / Resumo: O contexto organizacional contemporâneo reflete as nuances da globalização e do avanço tecnológico, responsáveis pelo aumento da competitividade. Dessa forma, as empresas, que atuavam isoladamente, passam a enfrentar desafios em grupos relativos ao lançamento contínuo de produtos e serviços que atendem às exigências do mercado. Face ao cenário exposto, surge um novo modelo de cooperação, conhecido como redes de empresas, que podem ser arranjados interorganizacionais ou intraorganizacionais formados por atores que se relacionam com o intuito de melhorar a obtenção de vantagem competitiva diante da concorrência. As instituições de Ensino Superior (IES), públicas ou privadas, constituem-se como empresas cuja imcubência é preparar a mão de obra visando ao desenvolvimento do país. Por esta razão, o conceito de redes de empresas aplicado às IES é relevante nos âmbitos sociais e econômicos. O presente estudo propõe a aplicação de uma abordagem que permita avaliar a sustentabilidade das operações de uma IES, mediante a análise de critérios de desempenho referentes às dimensões sobre as quais se assenta a realidade operacional da instituição. Para alcançar os resultados almejados realizou-se um estudo de caso na Faculdade de Tecnologia de Garça, estado de São Paulo, por ser uma instituição pública que oferece ensino tecnológico. Ao definir o recorte a ser estudado, procedeu-se ao levantamento das principais atividades desenvolvidas pelos atores entrevistados, ao mapeamento do recorte dfa rede intraorganizacional, à avaliação da intensidade dos relacionamentos entre os atores e à análise das principais atividades por eles desenvolvidas com os critérios de desempenho estabelecidos pela instituição. O estudo apresentou indícios de que as operações desenvolvidas pelos atores estão... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The contemporary organizational context reflects the nuances of globalization and technological advance, responsible for the increase in competitiveness. In this way, companiese which operated separately began to face challenges in groups for the launching continuously of products and services that meet market requirements. In this scenario, it comes out a new cooperation model, known as corporate networks, that is, inter-organizational or intra-organizational arrangements that are formed by actors whose relationship aims at improving the achievement of competitive advantage before the competition. Higher education institutions (HEI), public ot private, establish themselves as entreprises whose task is to prepare a manpower for the development of the country. For this reason, the concept of corporate networks applied to HEI is relevant in social and economic spheres. The present study proposes the application of an approach that allows the assessment of the sustainability or the operation of an HEI, through the analysis of performance criteria concerning the dimensions upon with the operational reality of the institution rests. To achieve the desired results a case study was carried out at the Faculdade de Tecnologia de Garça, São Paulo State, for being a public institution that offers technological education. To set the bounds of the study, the main activities developed by the interviewed actors were raised, as well as the mapping of the clipping of the intra-organizational network, the assessment of the intensity of the actors' relatinships, and the analysis of the main activities undertaken by them according to the performance criteria established by the institution. The study presented evidences that the operations carried out by actors are linked to the performance criteria established by the Unit in order to reach... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

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