Media Entrepreneurship, Vol 1

Paul Clemens Murschetz is a Privatdozent in Media Management and Economics and a lecturer at Webster Private University Vienna, Austria. He applies media management, media economics, governance theory, and political economy theories to issues related to Public Service Media, sustainable communication, and path dependence in media innovation. Paul is the key author of Die digitale Transformation der Medien. Leitmedien im Wandel” (Springer, 2022), The Handbook of State Aid for Film. Finance, Industries, Regulation (Springer, 2018), the Die Digitale Mediamorphose (Springer, 2019), and State Aid for Newspapers: Theories, Cases, Actions (Springer, 2014). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Media Management and Entrepreneurship (IGI Global), and an editorial board member of the Journal of Strategy and Management (Emerald), and the Journal of Digital Media and Policy (Intellect).

Cinzia Dal Zotto is Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where she teaches courses in general management, human resource management and leadership at undergraduate, graduate and executive level. She was previously Director of the Academy of Journalism and Media at the University of Neuchâtel and Director of Research at the Media Management and Transformation Centre of the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden. Her empirical research focuses on the news media industry. She is co-editor and co-author of Management and Innovation in the Media Industry (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008), The Media Convergence Handbook Vol. I & II (Springer, 2016) and Smart Technologies for Organizations (Springer, 2023). She is also consultant and trainer in the areas of human resource management and organizational behavior.

 Sven-Ove Horst is a Tenured Senior Assistant Professor for Media and Creative Industries at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and a Visiting Professor at Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. His research centres on strategic media management, media entrepreneurship, and organization theory. He is an educated strategy and leadership consultant and a systemically trained coach. His current interests focus on exploring broader, unexplored avenues in nonlinear domains of knowledge creation and their impact on our understanding of management and organizing.

Geoffrey Graybeal is a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business, where he also serves as Executive Director of the Faber Entrepreneurship Centre. He previously served as the Undergraduate Curriculum Program Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He co-founded Lede, LLC, a social media and business model innovation consultancy. Geoffrey has also taught courses on entrepreneurship and media management, served as a mentor to several startups, developed and led student pitch competitions, and contributed to developing entrepreneurial ecosystems in Texas, Georgia, and the Carolinas.