The digital entertainment industries and beyond

Thompson, Paul and Parker, Rachel and Cox, Stephen; Newsome, Kirsty and Taylor, Phil and Bair, Jennifer and Rainnie, Al, eds. (2015) The digital entertainment industries and beyond. In: Putting Labour in its Place. Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment . Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., Houndmills, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137410351 (In Press)

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Abstract

The chapter draws on research that situates development studios – games and visual effects (VFX) – in the global value chain, concerned with issues of control and value capture faced by small and medium-sized producers of digital entertainment products. In the context of the relevant industries, it shows how mainstream global value chain (GVC) perspectives are unable to deal with asymmetric power relations between capitals and between capital and labour. A preliminary model of value and power dynamics is developed that goes beyond complexity of information exchange, codifiability and competence of the supplier base (cf. Gereffi et al., 2005), in part by incorporating labour power – value inputs, agency and impacts – more fully into the framework. The chapter is, therefore, a contribution both to developing less workplace-centric versions of labour process theory and exploring it compatibility with value chain models that have a more radical intent restored.

  • Item type:Book Section
    ID code:51009
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    March 2015
    Published
    March 2015
    Accepted
    Notes:Thompson, P., Parker, R., & Cox, S. (2015). The digital entertainment industries and beyond. In K. Newsome, P. Taylor, J. Bair, & A. Rainnie (Eds.), Putting Labour in its Place : Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains. (Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
    Keywords:games and visual effects, VFX, global value chain, GVC, power relations and dynamics, value chain models, digital entertainment products, Management. Industrial Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management
    Department:Strathclyde Business School
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:12 Jan 2015 19:45
    Last modified:18 Jan 2023 12:25
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/51009
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