Digital games and beyond: What happens when players compete?

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 111-124

  Liu, De ^a   Li, Xun ^b   Santhanam, Radhika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital games; Experimental study; Intrinsic motivation; Tournament theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; MOTIVATION;

COMPETITIVE GAMES; DIGITAL GAMES; EMOTIONAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE; ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES; TOURNAMENT THEORY;

SERIOUS GAMES;

EID: 84873951967     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2013/37.1.05     Document Type: Article

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