This article addresses application of copyright protection to sports video games, discusses relevant important issues, and is aimed at disclosing intellectual property approaches applicable to the various elements of that entertainment and sports technology. The main focus is put on issues such...

Signs of the gender gap are ubiquitous in society. Psychological theory suggests that when gender stereotypes are associated with competition, men exert greater effort against women (dominance effect) and women exert less effort against men (submissive effect), which implies that women are at a...

The video game industry is one of the new engines of economic growth, and esports industry, as an essential subindustry, plays a pivotal role in driving economic growth. To investigate the mechanism and the quantitative relationship among them, we propose a two-stage transmission path “Esports...

This paper studies the optimal design of a liability-sharing arrangement as an infinitely repeated game. We construct a noncooperative model with two agents: one active and one passive. The active agent can take a costly and unobservable action to reduce the incidence of crisis, but a crisis is...

Research Aims: The Freemium business model is becoming increasingly prominent in the current digital economy. In the mobile game market, total revenue from free-to-download apps is overtaking those from paid apps. The purpose of this article is to propose a taxonomy that examines and categorizes...

Video games are an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback for a player. The typologies range from action games to adventure, role-playing, strategy, or sport games. Digitalization and web channels of fruition are embedded in most business...