Game Based Organization Design - New tools for complex organizational systems

There is a widening gap between the current organizational reality and the tools and methods available to managers for addressing its challenges. Game Based Organization Design shows that one of the ways to bridge this gap is to introduce insights and approaches from video game design into the design of organizational systems.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Systems 3. Games 4. Play 5. Rules 6. Design 7. Strategy

About the author

Jeroen van Bree is a management consultant and researcher. He has an MSc. in Information Management from Tilburg University, Netherlands, an MSc in Technology and Human Affairs from Washington University, USA, and he was awarded a PhD at Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Netherlands, for the research which inspired this book.

Summary

There is a widening gap between the current organizational reality and the tools and methods available to managers for addressing its challenges. Game Based Organization Design shows that one of the ways to bridge this gap is to introduce insights and approaches from video game design into the design of organizational systems.

Product details

• Authors: Jeroen van Bree, Kenneth A Loparo, Kenneth A. Loparo, Jeroen van Bree
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9781349468850
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46885-0
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 9 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 215 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 152 p.
• Subjects: Guides; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Management, B, Planning, Leadership, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership, computer science, Computer Science, general, Organizational theory & behaviour, Innovation/Technology Management, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, game theory, Research & development management, Management science, Information technology: general issues, Industrial Management, Business Strategy and Leadership, Popular Computer Science, Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Innovation and Technology Management, methods;organization;organizations;video