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- Dymek, Mikolaj, 1978-
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Industrial Phantasmagoria : Subcultural Interactive Cinema Meets Mass-Cultural Media of Simulation
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The video game industry has in three decades gone from a garage hobby to a global multi-billion euro media industry that challenges the significantly older and established cultural industries. After decades of explosive growth the industry surprisingly finds itself in a crisis – in terms of sales, future trajectories and creative paradigms. The global gaming culture receives substantial attention from society, media and academia – but the industry itself appears in comparison as an enigmatic terra incognita with astonishingly little dedicated research. This thesis aims to amend this situation by presenting a study at the cross-section of the video game industry, game studies, literary theory, cultural industries and business studies. It deals with the following question: how does the global game industry relate to its own product, in terms of communication and media dimensions, and what are the (business) consequences, in terms of production, strategy and commercial/creative innovation, of this relationship? This study’s departure point is constituted by a comprehensive description of the industry’s structure, dynamics and processes, based on extensive interviews with industry professionals. It is followed by an examination and comparison of the game industry with other media/cultural industries in relation to their economy and business dynamics. With inconclusive answers regarding the medium-industry relation, this study proceeds by exploring literary theories from the field of game studies, in order to gain insights into the dynamics of medium and industry. Literary theories from ludology and narratology provide rewarding perspectives on this inquiry, since it is found that the ontological dichotomy of simulation vs. respresentation present in the interpretational realm of the game medium is also reflected in the industry and its dynamics. This has pivotal consequences for the analysis of the game industry. This study concludes by positing the current critical condition of the industry as an extremely decisive moment in its history: will it become a truly universal mass-medium, or will it continue down its subcultural path? Subcultural “interactive cinema” meets mass-cultural media of simulation – how will the industry evolve?
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- Leijon, Mats, et al.
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On the physics of power, energy and economics of renewable electric energy sources - Part I
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Ingår i: Renewable energy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0960-1481 .- 1879-0682. ; 35:8, s. 1729-1734
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Environmental concerns have increasingly led to the installation of Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) despite the fact that they are recognized as expensive. Innovative efforts within the area are beset with difficulties [1], and they are at risk of producing misdirected or insignificant improvements in terms of the cost effectiveness of total energy conversion systems. This paper investigates how RETs can be evaluated, in terms of economy and engineering solutions, by studying the fundamental physics of renewable energy sources and how it matches with the RETs. This match is described by the "Degree of Utilization". The findings indicate that new innovations should focus on the possible number of full loading hours. RETs that are correctly matched to their energy source generate a higher amount of electric energy and have a higher potential of becoming more competitive. In cases where this aspect has been ignored, leading to relatively small degrees of utilization, it can be understood as an engineering mismatch between installed power, converted energy, and the fundamental physics of the renewable energy sources. Since there is a strong and possibly biased support for so-called mature RETs and already existing solutions, a clarification of how fundamental physical laws affect the cost of investments and payback of investments is needed. The present paper is part I out of II and it focuses on the difference between power and energy and the physics of different energy sources and their utilization. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Lennerfors, Thomas Taro, 1979-, et al.
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Chance Interventions – On Bricolage and the State As an Entrepreneur in a Declining Industry
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Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 20:5, s. 377-391
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we develop the notion of bricolage by paying attention to the role of chance in the same, rather than approaching it from the perspective of control and agency. We argue that the concept of chance can be used to downplay the common tendency to focus on individual agency in bricolage, proposing an alternative understanding of the latter as constellations of resources coming together in unexpected combinations. We situate our theoretical argument in the for bricolage understudied context of a declining industry, where we focus on the role of chance in how resources are combined and separated in state interventions, connecting to the literature on the ‘state as entrepreneur’. Three episodes from the Swedish state-owned shipping companies Zenit and Uddevalla Shipping during the shipping crisis of the 1970s and 1980s are used to illustratehow state intervention can be imbued with chance and serendipity.
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- Lindahl, Marcus, 1973-, et al.
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Leadership and the 'right to respect' : on honour and shame in emotionally charged management settings
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Ingår i: European Journal of International Management. - 1751-6757 .- 1751-6765. ; 5:1, s. 62-79
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Honour, as a concept, is at times seen as implicit in leadership and the working of peer groups, but has rarely been explicitly discussed in management studies. This paper presents honour as a key category in socio-moral contexts, and discusses how it and related concepts, such as respect, shame and pride, affect leadership contexts. We argue, through a discussion on honour as it has been studied in, for example, sociology and anthropology, that studies thereof can be a promising avenue for developing the way in which complex leadership settings and exchanges are analysed.
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- Lindahl, Marcus, 1973-, et al.
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The Ghosts of Shared Leadership: On Decision-Making and Subconscious Followership in the Death Zone of K2
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Ingår i: Extreme Leadership: Leaders, Teams and Situations Outside the Norm. - : Edward Elgar Publishing.
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- Extreme environments are characterized in part by the romance and mystique ascribed to them, something that goes for leadership as well. Whereas the mystique of the former is connected to the perception of danger and risk, both have connections to transcending the mundane, heroism and the challenge and character of the self. Extreme environments would thus be highly likely to bring out extreme perceptions of leadership as well, including but not limited to attempted heroics and confusing risk-taking with leadership. In addition to this, ...
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- Rehn, Alf, et al.
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Challenging the myths of entrepreneurship?
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Ingår i: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0898-5626 .- 1464-5114. ; 25:7-8, s. 543-551
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Entrepreneurship studies started out as a young field, one where a mix ofeconomists, psychologists, geographers and the occasional anthropologist cametogether to study the wonder and weirdness that is entrepreneurship, in a widerange of fashions and with few a priori assumptions to hold it back. Today, someof this eclecticism lives on in the field, but at the same time we have seen that thefield has matured and its popularity has led to the field becoming increasinglyinstitutionalized – and thereby beset by an increasing number of assumptions,even myths. Consequently, this special issue queries some of the assumptions andpotential myths that flourish in the field, inquiring critically into the constitution ofentrepreneurship as a field of research – all in order to develop the same. Withoutoccasions where a field can question even its most deeply held beliefs, we are atrisk of becoming ideologically rather than analytically constituted, which is whywe in this special issue wanted to create a space for the kind of critical yet creativeplay that e.g. Sarasvathy (2004) has encourages the field to engage with.
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