1st Edition

The Business of Gamification A Critical Analysis

Edited By Mikolaj Dymek, Peter Zackariasson Copyright 2017
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

At the turn of the century the term "gamification" was introduced as a concept to understand the process of using game mechanics in "non-game" contexts. The impact of gamification was soon evident to business practices where it had impact both on marketing and, more broadly, on the organizations themselves. As the number of individuals playing video games grows, there seem to be an acceptance of... Read more
Part 1: Internal Organisational Perspectives

1. Roleplaying Games at Work: About Management, Gamification and Effectiveness

Emmanuelle Savignac

2. Feeding the Red Critter: The Gamification of Project Management Software

Raul Ferrer Conill

3. Gamification as Ideological Praxis: On Play, Games and the Modding of Management

Alf Rehn

Part 2: External Organisational Perspectives

4. Game of Gamification: Marketing, Consumer Resistance and Digital Play

Lena Olaison and Saara L. Taalas

5. Win, Earn, Gain: Gamification in the History of Retailing

Franck Cochoy and Johan Hagberg

6. Inside the Gamification Case of a Mobile Phone Marketing Campaign: The Amalgamation of Game Studies with Marketing Communications?

Mikolaj Dymek

7. Samsung Nation: A Gamified Experience

Tracy Harwood and Tony Garry

8. Play a Game, Save the Planet! Gamification as a Way to Promote Green Consumption

Christian Fuentes

Part 3: Conceptual Perspectives

9. Gamification for Sustainability: Beyond the Ludo-Aesthetical Approach

Per Fors and Thomas Taro Lennerfors

10. Designing for the Play Instinct: Gamification, Collective Voodoo and Mumbo Jumbo

Stephen Webley and Karen Cham

11. Total Gamification and the Limits of Our Imagination

Per H. Hedberg and Mattias Svahn

12. Old Things – New Names

Peter Zackariasson

Biography

Mikolaj Dymek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Science at Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Peter Zackariasson is an Associate Professor in Marketing in the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.