Unraveling E-Sports Team Tactical Recipes: A Configurational Perspective

Jiantao Zhu, Chenyang Xue, Quanchen Liu, Chee Wee Tan

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    Abstract

    Research on e-Sports teams is gaining momentum. Yet, despite a small but growing body of work that investigates how team formation affects performance in e-Sports, the bulk of extant literature has primarily accentuated the effects of individualized factors on team performance while neglecting the nature of e-sports competition as a causally complex phenomenon. Consistent with the configurational view, we advance a research model that seeks to unveil how different types of team composition in conjunction with teams’ tactical implementation together to impact eventual outcomes. Contextualizing extant literature on team composition to e-sports setting, we delineate team composition into four types (i.e., individual offensive, collective offensive, individual defensive, and collective defensive composition) and divide tactical implementation into three dimensions (i.e., specialization, isolation, and advancing speed). To empirically validate our hypothesized relationships, we employed fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to analyze data gathered for a popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication42nd International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2021 TREOs
    Subtitle of host publication"Building Sustainability and Resilience with IS: A Call for Action"
    PublisherAssociation for Information Systems
    ISBN (Electronic)9781713893608
    Publication statusPublished - 2021
    Event42nd International Conference on Information Systems: Building Sustainability and Resilience with IS: A Call for Action, ICIS 2021 TREOs - Austin, United States
    Duration: 12 Dec 202115 Dec 2021

    Publication series

    Name42nd International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2021 TREOs: "Building Sustainability and Resilience with IS: A Call for Action"

    Conference

    Conference42nd International Conference on Information Systems: Building Sustainability and Resilience with IS: A Call for Action, ICIS 2021 TREOs
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityAustin
    Period12/12/2115/12/21

    Keywords

    • Configuration
    • E-sports
    • Isolation
    • Movement speed
    • Specialization
    • Tactical implementation
    • Team performance

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Science Applications
    • Information Systems

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