Ch1. A fundamental dilemma: efficiency versus creativity -- Ch2. Analytical framework and the research design: Innovation pattern and evolution of industry -- Ch3. The origins of the game software business in Japan: the movement till 1970’s -- Ch4. Creating New Demand: the start-up of the new...

"The business of videogames is both a prestige industry and a very opaque one. Based on dozens of firsthand interviews and covering the development of landmark games including Bioshock: Infinite, Epic Mickey, Dead Space, and more, and through the studios' shocking closures, this book will tell...

We provide evidence that the online discussion on the WSB subreddit had a substantial negative impact on the profitability of shorting strategies across a number of stocks -- even those that were neither heavily discussed on the subreddit, nor experienced an unusual increase in retail buying...

Introduction : for whom the love works in digital game production? -- The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work? -- The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction -- Gaming the...

"The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured-and transformed-the world's imagination. The Walkman. Karaoke. Pikachu. Pac-Man. Akira. Emoji. We've all fallen in love with one or another of Japan's pop-culture creations, from the techy...

Previous work has mostly looked at how acquisitions affect firm-level outcomes. This paper investigates how acquisitions affect product-level outcomes in the context of the console video game industry. We model the effect of acquisitions on video games' innovativeness, quality, and sales...

Proposition of the 'end of geography' based on globalization and digitalization has been heavily criticized by different geographers in the last decades. This paper mainly focuses on the digitalization side of debate because of the more obvious and contradictory relationships between geography...

Proposition of the 'end of geography' based on globalization and digitalization has been heavily criticized by different geographers in the last decades. This paper mainly focuses on the digitalization side of debate because of the more obvious and contradictory relationships between geography...

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Making Videogames -- A History of Videogames and Play -- The Videogames Industry -- The Work of Videogames -- Organizing in the Videogames Industry -- pt. II Playing Videogames -- Analyzing Culture -- First-Person Shooters -- Role-Playing, Simulations, and...

Der Begriff des Unternehmertums war lange Zeit stark männlich konnotiert. Inzwischen stellen Frauen in Deutschland rund ein Drittel der Selbstständigen und immer mehr Frauen können sich eine Selbstständigkeit vorstellen. Allerdings stagniert der Anteil gründender Frauen seit Jahren, sie...

This paper analyses and lays the ground for the development of an employer brand that is designed to help a Berlin-based business incubator to attract and retain tech talent. The company case exemplifies which elements are necessary to develop an employer brand and how distinguishing...

In diesem essential wird erläutert, wie Gamification, Digitalisierung und die vierte industrielle Revolution Gesellschaft, Unternehmensführung und Management verändern. Anhand zahlreicher Grafiken und Abbildungen werden unter anderem die aktuellen Branchenentwicklungen im Hinblick auf...

Game industry and cultural policy -- Hong Kong game industry -- Game industry and markets in China -- Cultural policies in China -- East Asian cultural policies and market -- Conclusion: Hong Kong's creative industries and East Asian rivalry -- Epilogue: study of cultural policy as vocation --...

Induction : the military-entertainment complex and the contemporary war imaginary -- From Battlezone to America's Army : the Defense Department and the game industry -- Creating repeat consumers : epic realism and the birth of the wargame franchise -- Coming to a screen near you : the RMA and...

Customers continuously evaluate the credibility and reliability of a range of signals both separately and jointly. However, existing econometric studies pay insufficient attention to the interactions and complex combinations of these signals, and are typically limited as a result of difficulties...

Experience goods are characterized by information asymmetry and a lack of ex ante knowledge of product quality, such that reliable external signals of product quality are likely to be highly valued. Two potentially credible sources of such information are reviews from professional critics with...

Customers continuously evaluate the credibility and reliability of a range of signals both separately and jointly. However, existing econometric studies pay insufficient attention to the interactions and complex combinations of these signals, and are typically limited as a result of difficulties...

This paper empirically investigates the relation between vertical integration and video game performance in the US video game industry. For this purpose, we use a widely used data set from NPD on video game monthly sales from October 2000 to October 2007. We complement these data with handly...

There are many calls for further investigation of the underlying processes, practices and specificities of governance when economic exchanges are organized within networks. Through an examination of what governance involves and how it occurs in two clusters specialized in digital and video game...

Profils rares, concurrents bien armés en termes d'attractivité... la bataille fait rage dans le secteur du jeu vidéo ! "Guerre des talents, crise de fidélité, comportement professionnel "zappeur", turnover...". Le contexte économique instable et fragile, rend les recrutements d'autant plus...

We present theoretical and empirical analyses of indirect network effects for a hardware market with vertically differentiated complementary goods. We demonstrate that the heretofore typical use of aggregate software counts can mis-measure the presence and/or magnitude of indirect network...

This book examines how the video game industry's economic strategies have changed over the past decade (2006-2016) from a media effects and game design perspective. It also features discussions and analyses on the social impact of these changes and how consumers have reacted to evolving...