Linden Lab studies massive online game "Second Life" unexpectedly gained worldwide fame after a few years after release. To the surprise of many game has met with great interest, despite the lack of promotional campaigns. It can be assumed that the reason why "second life" reached a wider...

More and more people around the world are using computer (video) games. The development of the gaming industry means increasing of its complexity in all aspects. Not only is the content represented in games continuously differentiating, but we also see the increasing diversity among their...

Computer games (video games) are becoming increasingly popular way to relax, or even to maintain social relationships with other people. However, they are not just only entertainment. Treated as a mass media become a source of income, knowledge and social problems, which may distort the reality...

Increase in popularity of games like "Second Life" has contributed not only to significant changes in the development of the electronic entertainment industry. Promoting Games 2.0, the new trend of video game production that are assumed to be the virtual worlds that contain user-generated...

This short paper explores the foundations of B2B platform partnership management. After a theoretical derivation of the terminology, the performance measurement practices of a B2B platform owner offering the two platforms A and B to industrial customers are identified based on qualitative...

In this paper, a qualitative model is inductively developed describing a dynamic “policy mix” -system of innovation enabling and outbalancing dimensions for the deployment of narrow artificial intelligence (AI) in the manufacturing value chain. A literature review first identifies and...

Value networks represent administrative and managerial approaches to abstract reality by schematic modeling designs for noded interchange of goods and services between value absorbing – often coined as capturing – intentions or occurrences. Co-creation references absolute results stemming...

The research examines Saudi Arabia's foreign policy against the background of the Syrian conflict. It focuses in particular on religious and historical backgrounds, which are of great importance for understanding developments in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia's changing role in a region that has...

Economics and sociology are immensely related. The relationship between economics and social behavior includes the impact of social consensus upon economic and distributional outcomes. We study the demand and supply mechanisms by which a social consensus is established, discuss how social...

Although Bangladesh is a constitutionally Islamic country, some brothels are regulated by state law. But these brothels are located in the suburbs, and there were legal brothels around the capital, which no longer exist. Thus, prostitution is observed in a variety of ways, including in...