• DOI:10.1086/522098
Corpus ID: 145796529

Conflict and Compromise: Drama in Marketplace Evolution

@inproceedings{Giesler2008ConflictAC,
  title={Conflict and Compromise: Drama in Marketplace Evolution},
  author={Markus Giesler},
  year={2008}
}

• Markus Giesler
• Published 2008
• Sociology

How do markets change? Findings from a 7-year longitudinal processual investigation of consumer performances in the war on music downloading suggest that markets in the cultural creative sphere (those organizing the exchange of intellectual goods such as music, movies, software, and the written word) evolve through stages of perpetual structural instability. Each stage addresses an enduring cultural tension between countervailing utilitarian and possessive ideals. Grounded in anthropology and… Expand

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