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

Gong, Huiwen; Hassink, Robert

doi:10.1111/grow.12306

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“…While recent research on path creation has focused mostly on regional and national institutional dynamics (Gong and Hassink 2019;Miörner and Trippl 2019), our work is innovative in proposing a more global and multiscalar perspective on institutional dynamics. Our results show how multiscalar legitimation processes may shape a region's ability to create industrial paths in emerging industries.…”

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The Geography of Technology Legitimation: How Multiscalar Institutional Dynamics Matter for Path Creation in Emerging Industries

2020

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Research in economic geography has recently been challenged to adopt more institutional and multiscalar perspectives on industrial path development. This article contributes to this debate by integrating insights from (evolutionary) economic geography as well as transition and innovation studies into a conceptual framework of how path creation in emerging industries depends on the availability of both knowledge and legitimacy. Unlike the extant literature, we argue here that not only the former but also the latter may substantially depend on nonlocal sources. Conceptually, we distinguish between multiscalar export, attraction, and absorption of legitimacy. Coupled with conventional knowledge indicators, this approach enables us to reconstruct how not only external knowledge sourcing but also multiscalar institutional dynamics contribute to a region or country's ability to leverage its potential for path creation in an emerging industry. Methodologically, we develop legitimation indicators from a global media database, which was built around the case of modular water technologies. Cross-comparing the evidence from six key countries (India, Israel, Singapore, South Africa, the UK, the US) with differing path creation constellations for this emerging industry, allows us to hypothesize how multiscalar legitimation influences a country's prospects for creating a radically new industrial path.

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The Geography of Technology Legitimation: How Multiscalar Institutional Dynamics Matter for Path Creation in Emerging Industries

2020

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“…Ernkvist and Str€ om, 2008) and the multi-scalar institutional pressures (e.g. Gong and Hassink, 2019) on the online gaming industry.…”

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“…The online gaming industry produces sophisticated products that combine high-end programming technology with artistic content and interactive user-based services (Ström and Ernkvist, 2012; Tschang, 2007). While the online gaming industry shares similarities with other creative industries, such as music and film, which feature cultural influences, reliance on information and communication technologies and a strong economic contribution, the online gaming industry is the strongest among all creative industries (Gong and Hassink, 2019). Online games consist of primarily two types: massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and casual online games.…”

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New wine in old bottles? Korean state actors’ policy engagement with the online gaming industry

Song

2020

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This article revisits the developmental state literature that stresses the unitary role of the state in steering economic development in East Asia. Focusing on the Korean state actors’ diversity and their agency after the trend of globalization and democratization, this article highlights various state actors as agents and looks into how the role of state actors has changed with industrial development, using the setting of the Korean online gaming industry over the past two decades. By examining government policy measures on the industry, I found that the state actors have actively engaged with the industry, however, this agency has not been uniform due to the different purposes of the actors and sometimes led a detrimental effect against the needs or expectations of the industry. The findings, thus, contribute to the literature by suggesting the potentiality of agent-driven institutional change and the heterogeneity that comes from the state actors’ policy engagement.

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“…This spatial unevenness has aroused tremendous research interest. As summarised by Gong and Hassink (2019), agglomeration economies, spinoff formation, and institutional environment are three main drivers of how creative industry clusters have been formed. While the literature has illustrated the benefits of local clustering of the creative industry, there exists the danger of over‐privileging the importance of local factors (Coe & Johns 2004; Johns 2005).…”

Section: Studying the Mobile Gaming Industry From The Global Production Network Perspectivementioning

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“…From the institutional perspective, the Chinese central government remains powerful in supervising the developments of different cultural industries, particularly gaming industries (Shan 2014; Fung 2016a). Gong and Hassink (2019) showcased the influence of multi‐scalar institutions on the development of the online gaming industry in Shanghai. Although the role of the institutions in the domestic development of the gaming industry has been increasingly recognised, little attention has been paid to the impacts, especially the limitations of home institutions in the overseas market expansion engaged by the indigenous gaming firms.…”

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

Cited by 17 publications

References 77 publications

The Geography of Technology Legitimation: How Multiscalar Institutional Dynamics Matter for Path Creation in Emerging Industries

The Geography of Technology Legitimation: How Multiscalar Institutional Dynamics Matter for Path Creation in Emerging Industries

New wine in old bottles? Korean state actors’ policy engagement with the online gaming industry

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

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