Friending your way up the ladder: Connecting massive multiplayer online game behaviors with offline leadership

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Highlights：

• We empirically test the “mapping” between virtual worlds with offline world.

• We examine how technology mediated communications have transformed leadership.

• 18,000 players’ survey responses and partially matched server data were combined.

• Virtual relationship-oriented behavior is linked to organizational leadership.

• Virtual task-oriented behavior is linked to leadership in voluntary organizations.

摘要

•We empirically test the “mapping” between virtual worlds with offline world.•We examine how technology mediated communications have transformed leadership.•18,000 players’ survey responses and partially matched server data were combined.•Virtual relationship-oriented behavior is linked to organizational leadership.•Virtual task-oriented behavior is linked to leadership in voluntary organizations.

论文关键词：Leadership,E-leadership,MMOGs,Online games,Virtual worlds

论文评审过程：Available online 18 March 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.02.013