The impact of pre-incubation on team effectiveness: The case of mobile game development

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2023-6

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Üstün, Ahmet Furkan

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This study is a qualitative inquiry into exploring the impact of pre-incubation activities on mobile game development team effectiveness with evidence from Animation Technologies and Game Development Center (ATOM). On the basis of a conceptual framework, i.e., Agile Teamwork Effectiveness Model (ATEM), I conducted in-depth interviews with current and past center managers and client incubatees to collect empirical data. Research design partakes of a constructivist approach integrated into interpretative phenomenology grounded on non-deductive reasoning. The ultimate findings indicate that ATOM has (1) an explicit impact on adaptability, peer feedback, and team orientation components through shared mental models, communication, and mutual trust coordinating mechanisms; (2) an implicit impact on redundancy component through communication and mutual trust coordinating mechanisms; (3) no apparent impact on shared leadership component, however. I made theoretical inferences in light of the findings. In line with my theoretical inferences, I propounded policy implications about team effectiveness for the benefit of (1) competent authorities, the current and prospective (2) game-thematic pre-incubation centers, and (3) mobile game development teams.

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Qualitative inquiry, Interpretative phenomenology, Team effectiveness, Pre-incubation, Mobile game development teams

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/104368

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis