Is diversity good or bad? Evidence from eSports teams analysis

Parshakov, Petr; Coates, Dennis; Zavertiaeva, Marina

doi:10.1080/00036846.2018.1470315

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“…can be used. Similarly, FPS games use some of the MOBA game performance measures, such as kills, and deaths (KD) (Parshakov, Coates, & Zavertiaeva, 2018). However, it is important to acknowledge that even though esports can provide many different statistical measures coming directly from the games, these measures are still too unexplored and unreliable to lead to an understanding of the underlying cognitive processes on their own, so other measures of performance are still needed.…”

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Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review

Pedraza-Ramirez

Musculus

Raab

et al. 2020

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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Competitive gaming, better known as electronic sports (esports), is rapidly growing in popularity. We systematically reviewed the available literature regarding the psychological aspects of esports using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) evidence-based reporting checklist and a Population, Intervention, Comparator, and Outcomes (PICO) framework with the following inclusion criteria: (i) published between 1994 and 2018; (ii) empirical investigation (as the current state of research is dense with positions and opinions but has few empirical investigations); and (iii) focussed on esports games that are associated with either cognitive performance or game performance. The goal of our research was twofold: to present a summary of the empirical evidence addressing the psychological characteristics of both cognitive and game performance in esports, and to integrate esports in the field of sport psychology. More specifically, our goals were to highlight the interplay of psychological aspects of performance and esports and to clearly define the theoretical foundations of the psychological aspects of esports performance. Underlining the differences from video gaming will inform future research directions and stimulate the development of high-quality practice in the applied field of sports and exercise psychology.

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Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review

Pedraza-Ramirez

Musculus

Raab

et al. 2020

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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“…This raises a question about management efficiency, not only in e‐Sports but also in similar industries because e‐Sports teams are similar to modern professions since computer knowledge and Internet communication are necessary for all employees. This might be partly explained by the features of CS:GO teams, that is, there are so‐called in‐game leaders in such teams (Parshakov, Coates, and Zavertiaeva ). This IGL might, to some extent, also be treated as the unofficial manager because he is supposed to manage the team during the game, which also requires elaborating on team strategy prior to the game.…”

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“…1 There are some features of CS:GO that make it a good platform for analyzing managerial efficiency. The team production function in CS:GO is similar to that of traditional team sports (Parshakov, Coates, and Zavertiaeva 2018). The rewards are performance-based, so the team prize money is a good proxy of its skill 1.…”

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Do Managers Matter: Evidence From E‐sports

Coates

Parshakov

Paklina

2019

Contemporary Economic Policy

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Growing importance of human resources places the role of managers at the core of company efficiency. However, there are studies that demonstrate the efficiency of teams without a manager, so‐called self‐managed teams, is higher comparing with managed teams. Thus, despite the focus on managerial efficiency in the economic literature, the issue of whether a team needs a manager is far from settled. In this paper, we use a quasi‐experimental setting from e‐Sports (competitive video gaming) to understand whether the hiring a manager is of benefit to team performance. The empirical part of the study is based on endogenous switching regression model. This method allows investigating what performance of self‐managed team would be if it will have a manager and vice versa. The dataset includes the information of prize money and features of top e‐Sports teams in Counter‐Strike: Global Offensive (e‐Sports discipline) from 2013 to 2017. The main finding of this study is that managed teams perform better than self‐managed ones but this is not due to the manager. (JEL Z2, M54, L25)

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“…Besides, some aspects studied in sports economics and applicable to esports were dismissed because they were not considered as "peculiar" economics of professional team sports. Aspects not covered in the paper include topics investigated in both sectors such as team diversity (Parshakov et al 2018), tournament prize structure (Coates and Parshakov 2016) and managerial efficiency (Coates et al 2020).…”

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Do the Peculiar Economics of Professional Team Sports Apply to Esports? Sequential Snowballing Literature Reviews and Implications

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The present research aims to identify the main peculiar economics of professional team sports, reflect on whether they apply to esports, and derive some implications. To achieve this aim, two sequential snowballing literature reviews were conducted. First, the literature on the peculiar economics of professional team sports was reviewed and assessed by the authors, based on their degree of distinctiveness and how core they are for the sector. Second, based on the main peculiar economics identified, a similar process considering economic aspects in the esports literature was conducted. The first review enabled the identification of 50 peculiar economics of professional team sports, of which 12 were assessed as the most distinctive and core to the sector. These 12 main peculiar economics were then considered in relation to the esports literature. This second review enabled the identification of some economic similarities and differences between sports and esports, before deriving some implications.

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Is diversity good or bad? Evidence from eSports teams analysis

Cited by 43 publications

References 18 publications

Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review

Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review

Do Managers Matter: Evidence From E‐sports

Do the Peculiar Economics of Professional Team Sports Apply to Esports? Sequential Snowballing Literature Reviews and Implications

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