The automobile industry is one of the biggest industrial sectors in the world. If one includes the economic activities up- and downstream of actual manufacturing the sector’s global value added stands at around 5–10 per cent. Worldwide there are around 500 million registered passenger cars. Their number continues to grow and by 2030 this will triple (Bartel et al. 2015: 6). Automobile manuf…
The global video game industry has witnessed signif icant changes over the past decade or so. Similar to other media industries, game developers and publishers have moved from producing independent titles and mate-rial goods to providing constantly updated digital services (Sotamaa and Karppi 2010; Švelch 2019). These shifts are visible in popular new business models like free-to-play and the …