The Implications of the Value Chain and Financial Institutions for Work and Employment: Insights from the Video Game Industry in Poland, Sweden and Germany

Teipen, Christina

doi:10.1111/bjir.12144

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“…This sector is often considered a key component of creative industries, but until recently it was largely overlooked by the literature on creative labour (Thompson et al, 2016). More recent contributions have explored this sector (Deuze et al, 2007; Johns, 2006; Teipen, 2016), highlighting the existence of problems related to working conditions, particularly for what concerns working time and work–life balance (Legault and Weststar, 2015), and recently focusing also on workers’ collective organization (Keogh and Abraham, 2022; Legault and Weststar, 2015; Peticca-Harris et al, 2015; Ruffino and Woodcock, 2021). However, these studies mainly focus on a specific subset of countries, mostly Anglo-Saxon ones.…”

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Playing alone? Interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands

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Burroni

et al. 2022

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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This article presents a comparison of interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands. While traditional industrial relations actors play a minor role, interest representation is far from absent in this creative industry. Interest representation is, however, dominated by other actors that often cut across the employer–employee divide. This article argues that the specific features of interest representation in the videogame industry can be explained by the characteristics of employment in the sector. The presence of fluid labour markets, the strong importance of intrinsic motivation in workers’ attitudes to work, and the presence of groups of workers willing to pursue individual strategies, contribute to distance the industry from the collective identities of traditional industrial relations actors and to strengthen the appeal to occupational identities developed by professional organizations, trade associations and informal communities.

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Section: Case Selection and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Playing alone? Interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands

Dorigatti

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Burroni

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Economic and Industrial Democracy

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“…de Peuter, 2012;Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter, 2009;Kerr, 2017;Nieborg, 2015). Though the industry has undergone numerous transformations, the core of the global value chain remains rooted in an asymmetrical power imbalance between development studios and game publishers (Teipen, 2015). Publishers hold monopoly positions in the value chain because they control access to funding and markets and typically hold the intellectual property rights.…”

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From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work

Weststar

Dubois

2022

Work, Employment and Society

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The digital game industry has embraced servitization – a strategic orientation toward customer centricity in production-based firms – to deeply monetize digital games. Though some note the resource-intensive nature of delivering services and suggest inherent risks in its adoption, extant literature is uncritical. This article draws on labour process theory to critique the impact of servitization on workers at the point of production. We conducted in-depth interviews at a large North American game development studio. The results show the human cost of servitization, generally overshadowed by financial considerations. Specifically, we theorize that servitization increases the indeterminacy of labour and this must be compensated for if servitization is to realize its cost-benefit potential. The result is an intensification of labour through additional control imperatives which make workers accountable to consumers through deterministic success metrics, impact the creative process and direct creative outputs in real time.

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“…A key aspect of SC planning and execution is the product development process and we saw two sub-themes emerge. First, papers which look at capabilities, such as creativity (Aoyama and Izushi 2003) and inter-firm mobility (Storz 2015) and then, second, country effects on these capabilities (Anderton 2017) and the effect of nation or supranational employment and labour regulation on those working in development fields (Teipen 2008(Teipen , 2016. This area therefore covers the type of people who are involved in the creative and innovative aspects of game design and country-specific environments, which can foster or hinder these developments.…”

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Digital Supply Chain Management in the Videogames Industry: A Systematic Literature Review

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As industries mature, they rely more heavily on supply chain management (SCM) to ensure effective operations leading to greater levels of organisational performance. SCM has been widely covered in many industrial areas and, in line with other burgeoning sectors such as Tourism, an industry focus provides the opportunity to look in-depth at the context-based factors that affect SCM. Developments in digital distribution and rapid technological innovations have resulted in an increased focus on Digital Supply Chains (DSCs), which bring about significant changes to how consumers, customers, suppliers, and manufacturers interact, affecting supply chain design and processes. Through a systematic review of the Videogames Industry Supply Chain Management literature, which serves as a pertinent contextual example of a DSC, we look at how supply chains are affected by structural, market and technological change, such as increased platformisation, disintermediation and the proliferation of digital distribution. We distil these findings into a new research agenda, which identifies themes in line with extant DSC research, provides a series of relevant practice recommendations and identifies opportunities for future research.

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The Implications of the Value Chain and Financial Institutions for Work and Employment: Insights from the Video Game Industry in Poland, Sweden and Germany

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Playing alone? Interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands

Playing alone? Interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands

From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work

Digital Supply Chain Management in the Videogames Industry: A Systematic Literature Review

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