Magazine Publishers Embracing New Media: Exploring their Capabilities and Decision Making Logic

Abstract

During the last decade, new technologies, such as the Internet, mobile phones and more recently the new reading devices, have posed new challenges for the magazine publishing industry and will continue to do so. Here we explore commonalities among magazine publishers in the forefront of integrating new media into their businesses. We approach this by combining two streams of management literature: dynamic capabilities and decision making. A case study of four innovative magazine publishers has been conducted where the practices related to business development and their underlying decision making logic have been analyzed.

Key Words:

• Decision making
• dynamic capabilities
• innovation
• new media
• magazines