"All Hits Are Flukes": Institutionalized Decision Making and the Rhetoric of Network Prime-Time Program Development

Drawing upon institutionalist theory this artcle analyzes how the introduction of new cultural objects produced for a mass audience is managed through an organized discourse. Data come form annoucements of prime-time television series in development for the 1991-92 season by the four U.S. television...

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