Panourgias, Nikiforos, Nandhakumar, Joe and Scarbrough, Harry (2010) Material practices of coordination and innovation in the design and development of computer games. In: 26th EGOS Colloquium 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, 1-3rd July 2010. Published in: Proceedings of the 26th EGOS Colloquium 2010 (Sub-Theme 18).

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Abstract

Taking as its starting point the growing interest in organizational studies regarding the role of objects and the material (Engestrom and Blackler 2005), this article investigates the role of objects and artefacts in the coordination involved in the development of computer games. The article draws on a comparative study of three
leading UK computer games design and development studios the aim of which was to capture an in-depth understanding of the way in which the developers studied create, leverage, and alter shared objects in this work and describe the interactions of the developers both with these objects and with one another in their work. Rather than
seeing formal and emergent coordination as antithetical, the article explores the link between formal and emergent types of coordination encountered in the development of computer games to show the important role objects and artefacts play in making this dynamic dialogical relationship work. Furthermore, the article explores, through this link between formal and emergent coordination, how many difficult to represent experiential and aesthetic features of the games are rendered explicit and captured in order to become addressable through the existing formal coordination practices of the studios and how contingencies and previously under-determined elements of the games under development are dealt with.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Paper)
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Information Systems & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title:	Proceedings of the 26th EGOS Colloquium 2010
Publisher:	EGOS
Official Date:	2010
Dates:	Date Event 2010 Published
Number:	Sub-Theme 18
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	26th EGOS Colloquium 2010
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Lisbon, Portugal
Date(s) of Event:	1-3rd July 2010

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