A24. Hart,
P. & Rice, R.E. (1988). Inter-industry relations in electronic news
services. Journal of the American Society for Information Science,
39(4), 252261.
The development of intercorporate and interindustry ties by firms
providing electronic news through videotex and teletext in the US
between
1979 and 1984 is discussed in the context of resource dependence
theory.
Several important trends are noted: (1) the growth in relationships
formed
between newspapers and cable firms to provide cabletext, (2) the
increasing
number of affiliate ties involved in both videotex an teletext
services,
(3) the more binding or permanent ties in videotex relations, and (4)
the
rather independent role of information providers in videotex compared
to
the marked dependency between information providers and transmission
providers
in teletext.
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