[ecrea] Call for chapter proposals: Business Innovation and Disruption in the videogames industry

** Call for Chapter Proposals **

Business Innovation and Disruption in the Videogames Industry: Global 
Perspectives  - http://tinyurl.com/hvkdhhk
[Vol. 5 in the Book Series "Business Innovation and Disruption in the 
Creative Industries"]

Abstract Deadline: 1 April 2017

Volume Co-Editors:  John Banks, Robert DeFillippi and Patrik Wikström
Publisher: Edward Edgar Publisher

This volume examines how innovations in business practices and models, 
studio and workplace cultures, technologies, digital platforms and game 
design methodologies are disrupting and transforming videogames industry 
structures, labour and work relations, customer relations, business 
models and competition. The volume will also specifically explore how 
these transformative trends and forces, while international in scale and 
dynamics, are experienced differently across the globe (from USA to 
Australia, Europe and Asia). Attention to these local and national 
differences will be a central theme of this book. The volume will also 
explore different and at times competing theoretical models, frameworks 
and perspectives that seek to grapple with and illuminate these 
transformations in the videogames industry.

The volume is soliciting chapter proposals from a multidisciplinary 
array of scholars to investigate the below themes of business innovation 
and/or transformation of industry structures, modes of collaboration, 
business models, business strategies or competitive dynamics in the 
global videogames industry.

•       Disruption of the industry structure and value chain relations.
•       Innovative revenue/funding models for videogames development and 
production.
•       Transformations in user behaviour, particularly related to user 
innovation, including crowd-sourced innovation.
•       Intellectual property innovations in the videogames industries.
•       Innovative modes of content creation, aggregation and distribution.
•       Case studies of innovative modes of business response to 
disruption challenges.
•       Assessments of prospective economic winners and losers in the 
videogames ecosystems.
•       Issues related to studio and workplace cultures.
•       Value chains and market ecologies: from console to independent 
development.
•       Changing production processes and practice, including increasing 
role of data analytics.
•       Policy impacts on videogames industry, especially at national 
and local levels.

The chapters will address the above themes through a variety of modes of 
analysis: institutional analyses, quantitative empirical study, and case 
studies. Our intention is to offer a plurality of theoretic perspectives 
and empirical methods from diverse social science, business and creative 
industry disciplines that can inform and illuminate our understanding of 
the forces shaping innovation and transformation in the global 
videogames industry.

This volume is the fifth volume in a book series focused on business 
innovation and disruption in the creative industries and we are 
delighted to be able to continue our collaboration with Edward Elgar 
Publishers for this volume.

600 word abstracts should be submitted to [(ja.banks /at/ qut.edu.au)] by 1 
April 2017. The abstract should outline your chapter and identify your 
theoretic and empirical method approaches and selected topics related to 
the theme of the volume. Include as a separate file a brief biography 
covering your current institutional affiliation and position and a 
listing of your relevant publications and educational background and any 
other pertinent information on your qualifications for contributing to 
this volume. Based on these abstracts, invitations to submit chapters 
will be sent out before the end of April 2017. We expect full draft 
chapter manuscripts (approx. 8,000 words) no later than 1 November 2014 
and final version of the chapters no later than 15 December 2017. The 
volume is scheduled to be published by September 2018.


John Banks
Associate Professor and Discipline Leader at the School of Communication
Chief Investigator, Digital Media Research Centre
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
(ja.banks /at/ qut.edu.au)

Robert DeFillippi
Professor in the Sawyer Business School
Suffolk University, Boston, MA
(rdefillippi /at/ suffolk.edu)

Patrik Wikstrom
Associate Professor and Head of the School of Communication
Chief Investigator, Digital Media Research Centre
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
(patrik.wikstrom /at/ qut.edu.au)

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