Media and technology today have rapidly become an essential aspect in today’s society, particularly playing an important role in modern businesses. Understanding techniques and applications in media management through a business and entrepreneurship lens allows organizations to benefit from today’s digital platforms and increase their profitability and sustainability. The innovative publication, the Journal of Media Management and Entrepreneurship combines business and entrepreneurship to address the areas of interest within the fields. The Editor-in-Chief of this cutting-edge publication, Dr. Datis Khajeheian, recently shared his insights into this emerging field in an IGI Global interview.
What are your areas of expertise?
Having been awarded a PhD in Media Management following an M.A. in Entrepreneurship (New Venture Creation) and a B.A. in Business Management, there’s no wonder that my focus is on Media Entrepreneurship, particularly the foundation of small and nascent media enterprises that operate through turbulent and ever-changing communication technologies. With a similar focus, I passed a postdoctoral research project on developing a media entrepreneurship theory by a study of Public Service Broadcasts’ commissioning of production. In particular, my areas of expertise are platform enterprises, audience engagement, business models for emerging media markets, niche markets, opportunity identification, and value creation.
What lead to your decision of becoming the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Media Management and Entrepreneurship?
In the past two decades, media entrepreneurship received an increasing academic interest, with several special issues and many research articles on the theme published in different journals. Taking the growth into consideration, I consider it highly necessary to release a journal specialized in media entrepreneurship in order to serve and foster this academic field. I have already handled two special issues on media entrepreneurship in academic journals. The number and quality of the submissions tell me it is a ripe time for running a special journal. After receiving advice from outstanding scholars in the fields of media management and entrepreneurship, I decided to initiate Journal of Media Management and Entrepreneurship as the first special journal on media entrepreneurship.
What sort of research will the journal cover? Are there any topics in particular?
In general, this journal would be the convergence of media management and entrepreneurship. Thus, researchers of all areas of interest within these two fields may have an opportunity to publish their findings in this journal. In particular, the main focus of this journal would be to cover topics that theoretically and practically contribute to new venture creation within media. Depending on emerging trends and academic interests, there would also be special issues to cover specific topics. JMME would accept different types of research, while qualitative research would be especially welcomed. Case studies and action research would also be of particular interest.
Who will benefit most from this research?
This journal targets three special audience groups: - Researchers and scholars within the fields of media management, entrepreneurship, business, technology, innovation, management, and communication sciences are the main target groups. It would inform them about new advances in entrepreneurship in media business and would provide them with a space to share their new research findings with one another.
- Another target group is entrepreneurs and startups. A great portion of nascent entrepreneurs and startups operate in digital platforms and benefit from social media, the Internet and digital platforms. This journal would provide them with practical findings and solutions sourced from the real world experiences of other entrepreneurs.
- The third target group is policy-makers. By learning from media entrepreneurs, they can develop more intelligent policies that better cater to the new requirements of their societies, corporates, and communities. Digital technologies have revolutionized many aspects of our lives, while the regulation and policy-making process has been very slow in adapting with those fast evolutions. This journal would provide them with the knowledge of how to deal with the challenges and facilitate their growth.
Why should researchers contribute to this journal?
Media entrepreneurship is treated as a niche market within the academic fields of business and economics with lots of space for scientific contribution and theoretical development. Researchers who may contribute to this journal would actually show how media firms, startups, and technology entrepreneurs can better perform and deliver value.
By publishing research papers in this journal, researchers have the chance of being recognized as an expert in a field where a large community of media practitioners and startup entrepreneurs operate. Gaining such a reputation in other related fields would be much more difficult.
Although this journal would be an academic publication, it would be featured by a drive for converging theory and practice. As one of the major aims of science is to apply acquired knowledge into the real world to solve problems, a section of the journal would cover industrial reports that show how corporations have solved their problems. Papers in this section are not essentially in academic format and would be evaluated by people from within the industry to see whether they deliver practical knowledge. This would motivate non-academic people to share their knowledge free from strict academic writing methods.
As Editor-in-Chief, I’d like to kindly invite all researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their contributions to the Journal of Media Management and Entrepreneurship. With an acclaimed editorial board, the journal aims to serve media entrepreneurship both in theory and practice!
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IGI Global would like to thank Dr. Datis Khajeheian for his thoughts on the importance of media management and entrepreneurship, and we look forward to the growth and success of the Journal of Media Management and Entrepreneurship.
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