Abstract The Video Game Industry (VGI) is a highly innovative and rapidly growing sector
that has become the dominant force in the entertainment industry, with significant economic …

The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and
TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …

During the last decade, cultural industries have grown in economic importance, and
research interest in them has increased. Despite prolific research, there is a lack of a …

Firms often need to acquire external financial resources to maintain and develop their
business. To attract these resources, firms employ various substantive and rhetorical …

The proliferation of new sources of entrepreneurial finance potentially makes it easier for
ventures to raise capital and grow. To date, entrepreneurial finance literature has developed …

We investigate whether and how digitization may affect the power relationships that
constrain the upgrading of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in global value …

This paper contains an exploratory analysis of the business model innovations (BMIs) that
firms in cultural and creative industries (CCIs) undertake along their life-cycle. Despite the …

This study provides a systematic literature review of creative industries using bibliometric
and scientometric approaches. The objective of the study is to offer an intellectual structure …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the motivation of
supporters to contribute resources to reward-based crowdfunding campaigns …

This study contributes to understanding the effects of crowdfunding on the value creation
process in the digital game industry. Specifically, it integrates the value chain logic with the …