Impact of Globalization on Organizational Form Die Away of Open Air Movie Theatres in Turkey

Abstract

Those asserting that globalization has a ‘convergence’ effect on institutional field point that, with globalization, models and practices acknowledged as ‘best practices’ will move from where they are institutionalized to other countries. With the late of 1980s, Turkey met with the American-origin ‘multiplex’ movie theatres. The main purpose of this study is to examine the expansion of ‘multiplex’ form of movie theatres and how such expansion affected the reduction in the number of previously existing forms such as open air movie theatres in Turkey. Based on the data of Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat), numbers and current statuses of ‘open-air movie theatres’ that previously existed in Turkey are discussed in the research.