Print Email Facebook Twitter Towards Playful Organizations: How online gamers organize themselves (and what other organizations can learn from them) Title Towards Playful Organizations: How online gamers organize themselves (and what other organizations can learn from them) Author Warmelink, H. Contributor De Bruijn, J.A. (promotor) Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Multi-Actor Systems Date 2013-07-04 Abstract Gaming has played an important part in our daily lives for quite some time now. As a result, many researchers are interested in the various ways in which gaming has an impact beyond its own context. This dissertation explores one particular type of impact, i.e., the impact of gaming on organizations. It theorizes that gaming is a frame of mind that influences what we find important when it comes to communication and collaboration with our colleagues at work. To explore this further, this dissertation first develops the notion of ‘playful organization’. Using a framework of organizational culture and structure, the dissertation tries to find playful organizations where online gamers play and work. It re-evaluates previous empirical studies of online gaming communities and professional organizations. It also looks into the ‘corporations’ of the massively multiplayer online game EVE Online, based on an ethnographic study. Finally, it looks into the communities and work organizations of a panel of Dutch online gamers, listening to the panelists’ ideas about the extent of playful organization in both contexts and subsequent comparisons between the two. This dissertation is thus an interdisciplinary and in-depth organizational study of online gamers’ communities and work organizations, in an attempt to gain insights into gaming’s impact on organizations. Subject online gamingorganization theorysocial scienceethnographic researchpanel research To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:cbc4a07f-bd32-4304-889e-3b8006ce90bc Publisher Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation Embargo date 2013-07-04 ISBN 9789079787517 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2013 Warmelink, H. Files PDF ONLINE MANUSCRIPT v13 020 ... FINAL.pdf 11.8 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:cbc4a07f-bd32-4304-889e-3b8006ce90bc/datastream/OBJ/view