Ann Vogel

University of Applied Sciences Mecklenburg Vorpommern · State Administration Training Institute

Theories of US hegemony commonly ignore the role of American philanthropy in the contemporary transformations of world society and the globalization of capitalism. In this essay, I suggest that the philanthropic foundation, and with it the institution of philanthropy, is being invigorated by the expansion of its domestic role to foreign activities...

We examine the utilization of remittances for expenditures associated with development, specifically children's education. We use household-level data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS II, 2003–04) to separate remittance effects from general household income effects to demonstrate the migration–development relationship reflected in child...

replies to a methodological discussion of film festival research by Diane Burgess to open a broader debate on the study of these cinema field actors caught between the convention of field research and the novelty of big data tools

Language has proven to be an important factor in film performance models, film finance considerations, and festival program selections. This essay uses multi-year global data sets (UN and supplementary databases) to analyse the relationship between the languages in which a film is produced and offered to cinemagoers on the one hand, and the co-prod...

This chapter explains how and why ‘festivalization’ has become a feature of cultural value chains, as artists seek increasingly large and spectacular events to perform or exhibit their work. ‘Live’ exhibition and performance are an important source of artistic income as economic and technological change (and increasingly concentrated distribution n...

This book presents an analysis of cultural value chains (CVCs), the connected processes generating value in ‘creative’ industries that command an increasing share of national output and employment. It combines relevant knowledge from more extensively researched global value chains (GVCs) with new economic and sociological insights into valuation, e...

This chapter examines the way that cultural products are made and traded in cultural value chains (CVCs) and enter other value chains, highlighting the differences between CVCs and the production processes that are the focus of current global value chain (GVC) analysis. The location of value-added processes along the chain stands in particularly sh...

This chapter discusses ‘enrichment’ by Boltanski and Esquerre as an explanatory theory for cultural value, helping to distinguish creative industries’ value chains from those conventionally analyzed in global value chain (GVC) research. Contesting previous economic arguments (associated especially with Throsby) which seek to construct a cultural ‘p...

With the sources of artistic/cultural value and typical configuration of cultural value chains identified in previous chapters, this chapter provides an analytic account of value capture by powerful chain participants. Festivals, while mostly operating as nonprofits or with marginal profitability, are found to be key sites for the creation of field...

This chapter examines in detail the forms of economic rent that arise at various stages along a cultural value chain (CVC). In addition to the rents arising from natural or artificial scarcity of productive inputs, as seen in industrial value chains, we identify and explain the ‘artistic rent’ arising from cultural workers’ willingness to keep prod...

The chapter summarizes global value chain (GVC) analysis and its implications for firm strategy to identify which ideas can be carried over (and which need rethinking) when analysing cultural production. It sets out the concepts incorporated subsequently into a cultural value chain (CVC) framework. Key insights emerge from GVC analysis in relation...

When journalists immerse themselves in events to generate more effective 'stories' they can add value to their reporting and raise the public willingness to pay for it. New media technologies that immerse the audience in events are now eroding this willingness, offering immediate experience that viewers and readers may view as preferable to the int...

Responding to a question of immense interdisciplinary interest, this book investigates the construction of value in the curation of film festivals and production of cultural events undertaken by nonprofit arts organizations around the world. Combining their expertise in economics and sociology, the authors outline a theoretically and methodological...

Film festivals around the world are in the business of making experiences for audiences, elites, industry, professionals, and even future cultural workers. Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism explains why these non-profit organizations work as they do: by attracting people who work for free, while appealing to businesses and policymakers a...

Friederike ('Fredi') Otto born in 1982, is a physicist whose purpose in work and life requires no further explaining to the citizens of Bangladesh. While many of the media outlets keep the focus on climate change and Otto's core research on extreme weather attribution, her contribution to today’s problem solving community goes much beyond it, as he...

How can the enforceability of law, especially at subordinate levels, be better addressed within the framework of approaches to better lawmaking already in the ex ante perspective? This aspect of better lawmaking was the focus of a scientific conference of the Practice and Research Network of the Universities of Public Service, which took place in O...

Cultural events and collections, as curated assemblies of artists and artwork attended by live audiences, are recognised as a large and growing source of added value in contemporary accounts of ‘creative’, ‘enrichment’ and ‘experience’ economies. We analyse these, and empirical festival studies, to assess the impact on cultural production when the...

Philanthropic foundations were an important source of support for economic research in Europe and North America in the twenty years from 1930, when policymakers were awakening to the possibility of macroeconomic intervention and the need for accurate data to support it in the context of interwar depression and centrally-directed wartime full employ...

Published 29 February 2012 in The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization

The article discusses how compulsory Russian language learning contributed to the shape of the EU language system in the last century.

Participation in transnational-university founding, as discussed for the case of the Sultanate of Oman, is a relatively recent national policy-making strategy to encourage ‘permanent innovation’ through an institutional mechanism. In their efforts, institutional entrepreneurs benefit from the spread of global models for higher education and revised...

The review discusses one of the rare case studies on Germany's higher-education strategies, specifically the transnationalization of organizations and institutions through binational alliance strategies.

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This chapter addresses the transnational agency of philanthropy. It focuses on philanthropic foundations1 rather than on philanthropists and limits the analysis to the case of US philanthropy and its international grant-making activities in the Middle East. Foundations have largely escaped the contemporary debate of democratic legitimacy and democr...

Review Essay of Economic Life, Economic System: New Research on East andSouth East Asian Economies: Robert C. Feenstra and Gary HamiltonEmergent Economies, Divergent Paths: Economic Organisations and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, £50.00 hbk (ISBN: 978-0-521-62209-7), xii+470 pp. / Pei-Chi...

In Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy, Alvin W. Gouldner has developed a conception of rational domination which is different from that developed by Max Weber. Gouldner argues that a democratic variation of rational domination (representative bureaucracy) can be more efficient tban the authoritarian variation, and that, accordingly, the ‘iron cage...

In the past two decades, film festivals have spread around the globe remarkably fast. They show high isomorphism in terms of organizational form, goals, programs and resourcing types, including strategies for institutional embedding in urban cultural policy planning contexts. At the same time they remain a highly stratified organizational populatio...