Creative Distraction: Lack of Collective Learning in Adapting to Online Advertising in Oslo, Norway

Markus Bugge ()

Industry and Innovation, 2011, vol. 18, issue 2, 227-248

Abstract: The advertising industry is often seen as adaptable and flexible, and its work organization and diverse project ecologies are assumed to nurture creativity, learning and innovation. The advertising industry in Oslo is currently going through a restructuring process of adapting to the Internet as an emerging media channel for marketing, but struggles to benefit from collective learning. The established advertising agencies have been reluctant regarding the new opportunities in Internet-based advertising, which has allowed for a set of smaller and specialized web agencies to emerge, and who now possess the best skills within interactive advertising. The paper argues that there are two parallel epistemic communities in the localized advertising industry. It is shown that the advertising industry seems to have been caught in a path-dependent technological trajectory, and that in order for collective learning to unfold geographical proximity needs to be supplemented by cultural and epistemic proximity and compatibility.

Keywords: Advertising; collective learning; epistemic communities; Internet; knowledge; path dependency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2011.541106

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