Bakker, Gerben
Dr Gerben Bakker
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Experience keywords:
strategy; applied industrial economics; development of (and management in) the entertainment industry, motion picture industry, music industry; the economics of intellectual property rights (copyright, trademarks, patents, etc); economic and business history; technological change and productivity growth in service industries; multinational enterprises; evolution of industries; long-run analysis of corporate success and failure
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Gerben Bakker's research focuses on the long-run development of sunk costs, market structure, technological change and productivity growth in service industries between the Industrial Revolution and today, linking three different methods and three different scales of observation: he uses business history, strategy and management science to examine organisations, applied industrial economics to investigate the evolution of industries and the economics of growth and development to access the productivity effects on the entire economy. The research assesses Britain's performance vis-a-vis the United States and continental Europe. Bakker has completed a research project on the long-run comparative development of the entertainment industry in Europe and the US. He has published widely on this topic, and on live entertainment and the motion picture industry in particular, in business and economic history journals. Other research interests include the economics of intellectual property rights and the changing organisational structure of multinational enterprise in the music industry since 1945.
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Languages: Dutch [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; German [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]; French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]; Frisian [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; Italian [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Basic]
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Media experience:
Radio; TV
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Bakker, Gerben (2013) Book review: media ownership and concentration in America. Business history review, ISSN 0007-6805 Bakker, Gerben (2013) Sunk costs and the evolution of the creative industries. In: Jones, Candace and Lorenzen, Mark and Sapsed, Jonathan, (eds.) Oxford handbook of creative industries. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Bakker, Gerben (2012) How motion pictures industrialized entertainment. Journal of economic history, 72 (4). pp. 1036-1063. ISSN 0022-0507 Bakker, Gerben (2012) The quality race: feature films and market dominance in the United States and Europe in the 1910s. In: Neal, Steve, (ed.) The classical Hollywood reader. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415576727 Bakker, Gerben (2012) Trade Follows the Film: Europe versus Hollywood in the Interwar Years. In: Eisenberg, Christiane and Gestrich, Andreas, (eds.) Cultural Industries in Britain and Germany: Sport, Music and Entertainment from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century. Wissner Verlag, Augsburg, pp. 139-155. ISBN 978-3-89639-865-9 Bakker, Gerben (2011) Leisure time and structure of household entertainment expenditure, 1890-1940. In: Cameron, Samual, (ed.) Handbook on the economics of leisure. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781848444041 Bakker, Gerben (2011) Trading facts: Arrow's fundamental paradox and the origins of global news networks. In: Putnis, Peter and Kaul, Chandrika and Wilke, Jurgen, (eds.) International communication and global news networks: historical perspectives. Hampton Press, New York, USA. ISBN 9781612890555 Bakker, Gerben (2011) Book review: from betamax to blockbuster: video stores and the invention of movies on video. Business history, 53 (3). pp. 472-474. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2010) Bedrijfsstrategieën, overheidsbeleid en de Europese filmmarkt tijdens het Interbellum. Tijdschrift voor mediageschiedenis, 2 pp. 13-36. ISSN 1387-649X Bakker, Gerben (2010) Book review: creative urban milieus: historical perspectives on culture, economy, and the city. Economic history review, 63 (2). pp. 567-568. ISSN 1468-0289 Bakker, Gerben (2010) The evolution of the British entertainment business: film, music and videogames. BIS Economics Paper No. 6: Learning from Some of Britain’s Successful Sectors: An Historical Analysis of the Role of Government. Department for Business, Skills and Innovation, London, UK Bakker, Gerben (2010) Book review: the invention of enterprise: entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times. The business economist, 41 (2). pp. 68-39. ISSN 0306-5049 Bakker, Gerben (2010) Book review: networks of entertainment: early film distribution, 1895-1915. Business history review, 84 (1). pp. 172-174. ISSN 0007-6805 Bakker, Gerben (2010) Book review: global experience industries: the business of the experience economy - by Jens Christensen. Business history review, 84 (3). pp. 625-626. ISSN 0007-6805 Bakker, Gerben (2010) Book review: Wellcome & co.: knowledge, trust, profit and the transformation of the British pharmaceutical industry, 1880-1940. Medical history, 54 (2). pp. 260-261. ISSN 0025-7273 Bakker, Gerben (2008) Entertainment industrialised: the emergence of the international film industry. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521898546 Bakker, Gerben and Iliopoulou, Stavroula (2007) Studying the past to plan for the future: a case study analysis of the unintended and indirect effects of regulation on productivity. AIM Research Working Paper Series, 062-December-2007. Advanced Institute of Management Research Bakker, Gerben (2007) Book review: the entertainment industry. EH.NET, Online Bakker, Gerben (2007) The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema 1890-1940. Advances in Austrian economics, 10 pp. 93-137. ISSN 1529-2134 Bakker, Gerben (2006) The making of a music multinational: Polygram's international businesses, 1945-1998. Business history review, 80 (1). pp. 81-123. ISSN 0007-6805 Bakker, Gerben (2005) The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1890–1927. Economic history review, 58 (2). pp. 310-351. ISSN 1468-0289 Bakker, Gerben (2005) Book review: playback: from the victrola to MP3: 100 years of music, machines and money. Business history, 47 (2). ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2005) Book review: the consumer trap: big business marketing in American life. Business history, 47 (1). pp. 143-144. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2005) The economic history of the international film industry. EH.Net Encyclopedia of economic history, Bakker, Gerben (2004) Selling French films on foreign markets: the international strategy of a medium-sized film company. Enterprise and society, 5 (1). pp. 45-76. ISSN 1467-2235 Bakker, Gerben (2004) Book review: retooling: a historian confronts technological change. Business history, 46 (1). pp. 132-133. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2004) The European film industry in the United States. In: Sedgwick, John and Pokorny, Mike, (eds.) An economic history of film. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 48-85. ISBN 0415324920 Bakker, Gerben (2004) How films became branded products. In: Sedgwick, John and Pokorny, Mike, (eds.) An economic history of film. Routledge, London, pp. 24-47. ISBN 0415324920 Bakker, Gerben (2004) Book review: quarter notes and bank notes: the economics of music composition in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The economic history review, 57 (4). pp. 796-797. ISSN 0013-0117 Bakker, Gerben (2004) Stars and stories: how films became branded products. In: Sedgwick, John and Pokorny, Michael, (eds.) An economic history of film. Routledge, London, pp. 48-85. ISBN 0415324920 Bakker, Gerben (2004) America's master: the European film industry in the United States, 1907-1920. In: Sedgwick, John and Pokorny, Michael, (eds.) An economic history of film. Routledge, London, pp. 24-47. ISBN 0415324920 Bakker, Gerben (2003) Entertainment industrialised: the emergence of the international film industry 1890-1940. Enterprise and society, 4 (4). pp. 579-585. ISSN 1467-2235 Bakker, Gerben (2003) Building knowledge about the consumer: the emergence of market research in the motion picture industry. Business history, 45 (1). pp. 101-127. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2003) Between Europe and America: the battle for silent film. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Bakker, Gerben (2003) Book review: family, family firm and strategy: six Dutch family firms in the food industry, 1880-1970. Business history, 45 (2). pp. 106-107. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2003) Book review: Hollywood's film wars with France: film-trade diplomacy and the emergence of the French film quota policy. Business history, 45 (1). pp. 182-183. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2003) The emergence of market research in the motion picture industry. In: Godley, Andrew and Church, Roy A, (eds.) The emergence of modern marketing. Routledge, London. Bakker, Gerben (2002) Book review: rngulfed: the death of Paramount Pictures and the birth of corporate Hollywood. Business history, 44 (3). pp. 146-147. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2002) Book review: painting outside the lines: patterns of creativity in modern art. Enterprise and society, 3 (4). pp. 735-737. ISSN 1467-2235 Bakker, Gerben (2002) Book review: technological change and the evolution of corporate innovation: the structure of patenting, 1890-1990. Business history, 44 (3). pp. 144-145. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2001) The enclosed economy: how public goods splinter into private properties. EUI review, (Spring). pp. 20-26. ISSN 1814-8182 Bakker, Gerben (2001) Book review: the red rooster scare: making cinema American, 1900-1910. Business history, 43 (3). pp. 160-161. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2001) Stars and stories : how films became branded products. Enterprise and society, 2 (3). pp. 461-502. ISSN 1467-2235 Bakker, Gerben (2001) Book review: Kodak and the lens of nostalgia. Business history, 43 (4). pp. 153-155. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2001) Book review: creative industries: contracts between art and commerce. Enterprise and society, 2 (2). pp. 392-395. ISSN 1467-2235 Bakker, Gerben (2001) Book review: the big tomorrow: Hollywood and the politics of the American way. Enterprise and society, 2 (2). pp. 392-395. ISSN 1467-2235 Bakker, Gerben (2001) Book review: the second century of cinema: the past and future of the moving image. Business history, 43 (1). pp. 161-162. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2001) Book review: In het wereldfilmstelsel: identiteit en organisatie van de Nederlandse film sedert 1945. Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 116 pp. 429-431. ISSN 0165-0505 Bakker, Gerben (2001) Book review: Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and middle class investors. Financial history review, 8 (2). pp. 231-243. ISSN 0968-5650 Bakker, Gerben (2000) American dreams: the European film industry from dominance to decline. EUI review, (Summer). pp. 28-36. ISSN 1814-8182 Bakker, Gerben (2000) America's master: the decline and fall of the European film industry in the United States. In: Passerini, L, (ed.) Across the Atlantic. Presses inter-universitaires Europeennes, Brussels, pp. 213-240. Bakker, Gerben (2000) Book review: Vom Flügeltelegraphen zum Internet. Geschichte der modernen Telekommunikation. Business history, 42 (3). pp. 172-174. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (2000) Book review: an international history of the recording industry. Business history, 42 (4). pp. 222-223. ISSN 0007-6791 Bakker, Gerben (1993) Book review: Oorlogsdocumentatie ’40-45: Vierde Jaarboek van het Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie. Groniek, 27 (122). ISSN 0169-2801
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AwardsGino Luzzatto Dissertation Prize for the best PhD in European Economic History, awarded by the European Historical Economics Society, Madrid, 26 July 2003; Herman E. Krooss Dissertation Prize for the best Ph.D. in Business History, awarded by the Business History Conference (US), Lowell, MA, 28 June 2003; Coleman Prize for the best PhD defended in 2001 dealing with British business history (awarded by the Association of Business Historians); Prize for the best Ph.D. of the Department of History of the European University Institute during 1998-2001; New Researchers' Prize for 'The social savings of the film industry,' at the Annual Conference of the Economic History Society, Glasgow, April 2001
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