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Experience of Legal Regulation of Lootboxes in Different Countries: a Comparative Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Digital Technologies and Law
Objective: to show how the use of a new business model called Loot boxes, on which modern video games are based, has become a legal problem for jurisdictions in different countries.Methods: drawing on existing literature and contemporary sources, the ...
S. Pour
doaj   +1 more source

The Fox in the Henhouse: The Failure of the Video Game Industry\u27s Self-Regulation with Regard to Loot Boxes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This comment seeks to coherently summarize the broad cultural and legal conversations about loot boxes in the United States video game industry. This Comment argues that existing case and statutory law are sufficient for a court to conclude that loot ...
Jones, Carl C.
core   +1 more source

Toward Sustainable Healthcare: Examining ESG‐Readiness in Austrian Regional State‐Owned Hospitals

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reporting on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues is now an essential part of responsible corporate governance, including in the healthcare sector. This study investigates the ESG reporting practices of Austrian regional state‐owned hospitals (rSOHs), contributing to the growing sustainability literature. Thirteen interviews with
Philumena Bauer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond feasibility filters: How expertise heterogeneity enables innovation recognition

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Organizations often struggle to identify promising innovations that balance novelty and feasibility in multidisciplinary domains, yet how does evaluator expertise heterogeneity shape these assessments? This study examines how evaluator expertise influences innovation evaluation through a field experiment with National ...
Jacqueline N. Lane   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A scoping review of the association between loot boxes, esports, skin betting, and token wagering with gambling and video gaming behaviors. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Behav Addict, 2023
Kim HS   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Psychological and Legal Aspects of Using Loot Boxes

open access: yesTeka Komisji Prawniczej PAN Oddział w Lublinie, 2020
The article aims to present the issues related to the new phenomenon of loot boxes in virtual games. The work consists of four parts. The first one defines what loot boxes are and what is their meaning in virtual games. The second part presents psychological issues related to this matter – mainly in the context of similarities between the use of loot ...
Bernadeta Lelonek-Kuleta   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Searching together versus searching apart: Evidence from Kaggle

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary How does the mode of search—independently or jointly—affect collective search, a central component of organizational adaptation and innovation? Using naturally occurring data from a strongly incentivized online competition platform, we find that compared to their counterfactuals that search apart, groups searching together ...
Marco S. Minervini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
wiley   +1 more source

Loot Boxes: Are they grooming youth for gambling?

open access: yes, 2020
This report outlines research aimed at understanding the risks posed by loot boxes to adolescents (12-17) and young adults (18-24) in NSW. Loot boxes are a growing concern due to the risk and reward properties that closely align them with traditional gambling, the potential for encouraging greater gambling involvement, and the potential for associated ...
Rockloff, Matthew   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

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