Definitions of esports: a systematic review and thematic analysis

J Formosa, N O'donnell, EM Horton, S Türkay… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The esports market has been growing exponentially has been growing exponentially with
much interest from industry and academia. Perhaps because of this growth, there is a lack of …

Esports scholarship review: Synthesis, contributions, and future research

AD Pizzo, Y Su, T Scholz, BJ Baker… - Journal of Sport …, 2022 - journals.humankinetics.com
Esports, or competitive video gaming competitions, bring together aspects of sports,
business, leisure, technology, and digital media, appealing to academics across multiple …

Sport tourism as driving force for destinations' sustainability

M Morfoulaki, G Myrovali, KM Kotoula, T Karagiorgos… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sport tourism is a fast-growing segment of tourism offering new perspectives and supporting
travelers' behavior shift towards active living that is a boost for sustainable destinations …

The strategic advantage of mature-stage firms: Digitalization and the diversification of professional sport into esports

AD Pizzo, T Kunkel, GJ Jones, BJ Baker… - Journal of Business …, 2022 - Elsevier
Digital innovations provide mature organizations with opportunities to grow beyond their
core industry and thereby compete with formerly tangentially related firms. In this research …

Dynamic scheduling of e-sports tournaments

ZL Dong, CC Ribeiro, F Xu, A Zamora, Y Ma… - … Research Part E …, 2023 - Elsevier
Electronic sports tournaments are well adapted to dynamic scheduling. A dynamic approach
for scheduling e-sports tournaments based on a modification of the Swiss system design is …

Hypercasual and hybrid-casual video gaming: A digital leisure perspective

AD Pizzo - Leisure Sciences, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of hypercasual and hybrid-casual video
gaming and their influence on digital leisure. Existing sport and leisure scholarship on video …

Esports gender diversity: A leisure constraints perspective

AD Pizzo, S Na, D Kim, K Alexandris… - Journal of Leisure …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Esports are a leading form of digital leisure. Esports offer salient career opportunities,
ranging from professional players to roles in science, technology, engineering, and …

Legitimizing the game: how gamers' personal experiences shape the emergence of grassroots collective action in esports

J Cestino, J Macey, B McCauley - Internet Research, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper studies early stages of actor mobilization for institutional change within
Swedish esports. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ interpretative …

New media, new possibilities? How esports strategies guide an ambidextrous understanding of tradition and innovation in the German Bundesliga

J Hammerschmidt, S Haski, S Kraus… - Journal of Media …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Sport clubs are endowed with beliefs and practices that constitute their tradition. Conversely,
there is a certain pressure to embrace innovation to win the race for tomorrow's fans …

The dynamics of esports crowdfunding campaign success: a social exchange perspective

H Xue, J Du, AD Pizzo, BJ Baker, TE Henry… - International …, 2024 - Springer
Esports—a professionalized, commercialized, and spectatorial form of video game
competition—is a burgeoning industrial sector that has relied on entrepreneurial community …