From value chains to technological platforms: the effects of crowdfunding in the digital game industry

TY - JOUR

T1 - From value chains to technological platforms

T2 - the effects of crowdfunding in the digital game industry

AU - Nucciarelli, Alberto

AU - Li, Feng

AU - Fernandes, Kiran Jude

AU - Goumagias, Nikolaos

AU - Cabras, Ignazio

AU - Devlin, Sam

AU - Kudenko, Daniel

AU - Cowling, Peter Ivan

N1 - © 2017, Elsevier Inc. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy.

PY - 2017/3/3

Y1 - 2017/3/3

N2 - This study contributes to understanding the effects of crowdfunding on the value creation process in the digital game industry. Specifically, it integrates the value chain logic with the platform logic to examine collaborative value creation enabled by opening up the business models of game developers to the crowd. Through a multiple case design this research shows that the benefit of using crowdfunding goes well beyond fundraising. As an implementation of open innovation, crowdfunding unifies the channels that bring capital, technology and market knowledge from the crowd into the game. This finding leads to the exploration of a new complex system of interactions between game developers and value chain stakeholders, and invokes the analysis of crowdfunding as a form of technological platform to identify and analyze new types of collaboration and competition. This research limits its findings to the effects of reward-based crowdfunding. Other forms of crowdfunding require further investigations. The paper also aims to help practitioners understand how crowdfunding is transforming the game industry.

AB - This study contributes to understanding the effects of crowdfunding on the value creation process in the digital game industry. Specifically, it integrates the value chain logic with the platform logic to examine collaborative value creation enabled by opening up the business models of game developers to the crowd. Through a multiple case design this research shows that the benefit of using crowdfunding goes well beyond fundraising. As an implementation of open innovation, crowdfunding unifies the channels that bring capital, technology and market knowledge from the crowd into the game. This finding leads to the exploration of a new complex system of interactions between game developers and value chain stakeholders, and invokes the analysis of crowdfunding as a form of technological platform to identify and analyze new types of collaboration and competition. This research limits its findings to the effects of reward-based crowdfunding. Other forms of crowdfunding require further investigations. The paper also aims to help practitioners understand how crowdfunding is transforming the game industry.

U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.12.030

DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.12.030

M3 - Article

SN - 0148-2963

JO - JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH

JF - JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH

ER -