The local, the global and the industry common: the case of the video game industry

Cohendet, Patrick; Grandadam, David; Mehouachi, Chahira; Simon, Laurent

doi:10.1093/jeg/lby040

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“…Concerning the industrial context, the online games industry is a creative industry (Cao & Downing, ; Cheung & Fung, ; Chew, in press; Cohendet et al, ; Cohendet & Simon, ; Ernkvist & Ström, ; Gong & Hassink, ; Tsang & Tschang, ), and it is also an essential part of the new media sector (Dovey & Kennedy, ). Tschang (), for instance, manifests that online games are sophisticated products that combine programming technology with artistic content and interactive qualities, and Cohendet et al (), largely in consensus with this, argue that video game activities are those for which the coupling between the arts and science or technology is the strongest among all creative industries. While unique in many ways, the games industry shares similarities with other new media industries such as cartoon and broadcasting, in which the cultural influence, the reliance on information and communication technologies, and the strong economic contribution of such industries have drawn the attention of both scholars and politicians (we will elaborate such characteristics in the later part of the paper).…”

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“…It does so by zooming in on the interrelationships between institutions and the development of a local creative industry—the Shanghai online games industry. Online games industry can be seen as a typical case of the creative industries/the new media industries, as it shares some key features with other creative industries (Cohendet, Grandadam, Mehouachi, & Simon, ; Tschang, ). Such features might contribute to diverse causal mechanisms between industrial and institutional dynamics in a co‐evolutionary manner—that is, the dynamics of relevant populations (e.g., industries, institutions) at one scale influence and are influenced by the activities taken by populations at other levels (Gong & Hassink, in press).…”

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Developing the Shanghai online games industry: A multi‐scalar institutional perspective

Gong

Hassink

2019

Growth and Change

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In recent decades, while place‐based policies and local development have attracted the interest of institutional economic geography, the issue of features of certain industries and how they are shaping and shaped by institutions at multiple spatial scales, has not been taken up sufficiently. This paper, based on a local creative industry—the Shanghai online games industry, which is an essential part of the new media sector, takes issue with it. It explores two aspects, namely how multi‐scalar institutions relate and influence the development of the online games industry in Shanghai and how local firms and entrepreneurs affect local and national institutions. It shows that the three aspects that are related to media sector in general and games industry in particular (i.e., cultural influence, technological significance, and economic value) matter much as they have resulted in diverse industry‐relevant policies and regulations devised by local and national states. Moreover, local firms and entrepreneurs with different capacities and characteristics also differ much in influencing the design of the industry‐specific institutions in the face of institutional voids.

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Developing the Shanghai online games industry: A multi‐scalar institutional perspective

Gong

Hassink

2019

Growth and Change

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“…According to Cohendet et al . (2018), the gaming industry is of strong coupling between the arts and technology. Hence, in relation to the study of the mobile game industry, two gaps mentioned above could be further extended.…”

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Market Expansion of Domestic Gaming Firms in Shenzhen, China: Dilemma of Globalisation and Regionalisation

Yang

Chan

2020

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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China's domestic mobile gaming firms, such as Tencent, which has developed into the world's biggest gaming firm by revenues in a short span, have outweighed the leading counterparts in the Western advanced economies. Despite an increasing attention has been paid to the global investment of Chinese gaming firms, this paper argues that their market expansion has focused on the selected Southeast Asian countries. This arguement is developed through the aurthors' extensive field investigation and personal interviews with games developers and publishers in Shenzhen, where Tencent is located, during the early 2017 and late 2019. We showcase that the protective multi‐scalar institutions in which the Chinese gaming firms have dominated in the domestic market, have prevented the overseas market expansion of these firms. Although the government‐designated extra‐local inter‐firm collaboration has helped narrow the technological gaps and articulate China’s firms into the global production networks, the market gaps between the domestic and western economies have not been overcome in the expansion to overseas markets. This study sheds light on that the market expansion of Chinese gaming firms has stucked in a dilemma between globalization and regionalization. While China’s domestic gaming firms, particularly Tencent, have been evolving into lead firms in the global games production networks, their market power has been confined at domestic and regional levels.

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“…[8] On the other hand, the creative industries can be built by multinational companies at the local level. [9] The creative industry is also seen as a unique area of business that contributes to the sustainable growth of the country's economy. [10] The renewed growth of these sectors represents its enormous potential in the global environment.…”

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The Impact of globalization on the development of creative industries businesses

Šagátová¹

2020

SHS Web Conf.

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The creative industry represents the potential for economic growth worldwide. Even though there is no single definition of it, it can be generally said that these are the economic sectors in which the primary production factor are people, their individual creativity, ability, and talent. Creative industries can also be said to be created at the interface of innovation and culture, where they overlap. The article focuses on the analysis of the creative industries development in the Slovak Republic in the context of the development of creative industries in other European Union countries. Based on the gained knowledge, it points out the regional differences in the creative world of European countries. The article also tries to identify the link between globalization influences and the development of the creative industry, using the KOF index. This index represents a quantitative expression of the level of globalization in terms of its economic, political, and sociological development. This enables a comparison of the the selected indicator development of the creative industry with the development of globalization. The research methods used include time series analysis as well as correlation methods. The obtained results suggest that the creative industries is developing independently of globalization trends.

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The local, the global and the industry common: the case of the video game industry

Cited by 33 publications

References 49 publications

Developing the Shanghai online games industry: A multi‐scalar institutional perspective

Developing the Shanghai online games industry: A multi‐scalar institutional perspective

Market Expansion of Domestic Gaming Firms in Shenzhen, China: Dilemma of Globalisation and Regionalisation

The Impact of globalization on the development of creative industries businesses

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