The European Media Management Association (EMMA) is an international not-for-profit organisation for professionals and academics in

media management Media management is a business administration discipline that identifies and describes strategic and operational phenomena and problems in the leadership of Mass media, media enterprises. Media management contains the functions strategic management ...

. EMMA was founded in 2003 as the European Media Management Education Association, but was renamed European Media Management Association in 2014. It has some 150 members for 20 European universities. The main activity of EMMA is the annual conference. A biannual doctoral summer school is organised. The EMMA is associated with a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

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, ''Journal of Media Business Studies'',http://center.hj.se/mmtc/jombs.html which covers business aspects of media enterprises. Aspects including media economics,

strategic management In the field of management, strategic management involves the formulation and implementation of the major goals and initiatives taken by an organization's managers on behalf of stakeholders, based on consideration of Resource management, resources ...

marketing Marketing is the act of acquiring, satisfying and retaining customers. It is one of the primary components of Business administration, business management and commerce. Marketing is usually conducted by the seller, typically a retailer or ma ...

entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entrepreneu ...

, and

finance Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and Academic discipline, discipline of money, currency, assets and Liability (financial accounting), liabilities. As a subject of study, is a field of Business administration, Business Admin ...

. The journal was established in 2004 by founding

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Robert G. Picard, and is published by

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. The editor-in-chief is Leona Achtenhagen

Jönköping University Jönköping University (JU), formerly Högskolan i Jönköping, is a private Swedish university college located in Jönköping, Sweden. The college has approximately 832 employees and 10,992 students. Jönköping University is a young profession ...

. The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO Business Source Complete, CIOS, and Communications Abstracts.

Executive board

* ''President:'' Ulrike Rohn from Tallinn University / (

Baltic Film and Media School Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University (BFM) is a film and media school created in 2005 (as Baltic Film and Media School) as a college of Tallinn University. BFM provides students with free shooting and post-production equip ...

) * ''Deputy President:'' Päivi Maijanen from

LUT University Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT ('' Finnish'': Lappeenrannan-Lahden teknillinen yliopisto LUT), better known by the abbreviation LUT University ('' Finnish'': LUT-yliopisto) is a Finnish public research university which was esta ...

* ''Secretary:'' Sari Virta from Metropolia University * ''Treasurer:'' Ramona Dremljuga from Tallinn University / (

) * ''Special Projects / Special Interest Groups:'' Sabine Baumann from Jade University of Applied Sciences * ''Communication Portfolio:'' Bianca Harms from NHL Stenden University and

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; , abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, th ...

* ''Summer School:'' Miguel Crespo from ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon * ''Conference:'' Joaquin Cestino from

EMMA presidents

* 2003-2005: Alfonso Sanchez-Tabernero from

Universidad de Navarra Universidad (Spanish for "university") may refer to: Places * Universidad, San Juan, Puerto Rico * Universidad (Madrid) Football clubs * Universidad SC, a Guatemalan football club that represents the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala ...

* 2006-2008: Heinz-Werner Niestedt from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) * 2008-2010: Lucy Küng from University of Oxford * 2010-2012: Charles Brown from Westminster University * 2012-2016: Gregory Ferrell Lowe University of Tampere

Previous conferences

* 2019

Limassol Limassol, also known as Lemesos, is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus and capital of the Limassol district. Limassol is the second-largest urban area in Cyprus after Nicosia, with an urban population of 195,139 and a district population o ...

* 2018 Warsaw * 2017

Ghent Ghent ( ; ; historically known as ''Gaunt'' in English) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the Provinces of Belgium, province ...

* 2016

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

* 2015 Hamburg * 2014 Tallinn * 2013

Bournemouth Bournemouth ( ) is a coastal resort town in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. At the 2021 census, the built-up area had a population of 196,455, making it the largest ...

* 2012

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

* 2011 Moscow * 2010 London * 2009 Paris * 2008

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

* 2007 Zurich

References

External links

Official website

''Journal of Media Business Studies''
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