The strength of direct ties: Evidence from the electronic game industry

Jörg Claussen, Oliver Falck and Thorsten Grohsjean

International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2012, vol. 30, issue 2, 223-230

Abstract: We analyze the economic effects of a developer's connectedness in the electronic game industry. Knowledge spillovers between developers are likely to be of special relevance in this knowledge-intensive and regionally concentrated industry. We calculate social network measures for a developer's connectedness to other developers at multiple points in time. In a regression in which we exploit within-career variation in social network measures, we find that the number of direct ties a developer has to other developers has a strong effect on both a game's revenues and critics' scores. The quality of indirect ties makes no additional contribution to the game's success.

Keywords: Social network analysis; Electronic game industry; Knowledge spillovers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 L14 L86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2011.09.004

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