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O'Brien, Daniel and Wellbrock, Christian-Mathias . How the Trick is Done - Conditions of Success in Entrepreneurial Digital Journalism. Digit. Journal.. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 2167-082X

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Abstract

Entrepreneurial journalism is often ascribed the potential to partly close the supply gap in digital journalism caused by the effects of digitization. Decreasing fixed costs on the production stage, in particular, have enabled smaller entities, entrepreneurs and start-ups to produce high quality journalistic content. While there is a broad stream of literature on entrepreneurial success in general, empirical research says little about the reasons for digital journalistic entrepreneurs' success (or lack thereof). This study aims at empirically investigating success conditions associated with entrepreneurship in the digital news business. Seven broader super-conditional prerequisites are considered: Experience, skills, personality, product, business model, company organization, and broader environment. The data, collected through 49 interviews with digital journalistic entrepreneurs in Germany, is analysed with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), a set theoretical method to determine necessity/sufficiency of preformulated conditions for a respective outcome (i.e., entrepreneurial (non-)success). The results indicate high importance of, first, the experience of the founder, and, second, the functioning organization of the company, while, interestingly, third, only absence of support from the broader environment and/or government contributed to the success.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code O'Brien, Daniel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Wellbrock, Christian-Mathias UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-568119
DOI:	10.1080/21670811.2021.1987947
Journal or Publication Title:	Digit. Journal.
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	2167-082X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PERFORMANCE; PERSONALITY; BUSINESS; MODEL; ORIENTATION; PACKAGE; START; ORGANIZATION; INFORMATION; MANAGERIAL Multiple languages Communication Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56811