Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens
and translation as an applied practice. This book is the first to ask: what can translanguaging …

Gamification in management is currently informed by two contradicting framings or rhetorics:
the rhetoric of choice architecture casts humans as rational actors and games as perfect …

Although management gamification has immense potential to broadly benefit both
management and employees, its impact to date has been lackluster and its value unclear. I …

This Element argues for a perspective on literary translation based around the idea of
ludification, using concrete poetry as a test case. Unlike rational-scientific models of …

According to the dominant logic, the first thing that comes to mind about play is
entertainment rather than work. In a workplace context, we generally consider playing as a …

What does it mean for an organization “to exist”? Building upon the philosophical notion of
ontologies as theories of existence, I outline a theory of organizational ontology supported …

This chapter reviews existing theories and frameworks of games, playfulness and play
developed since the late nineteenth century. By understanding through various disciplines …

This article discusses how children with intellectual disabilities and special communicative
needs use Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) and sign-to-speech …

Conventional wisdom suggests that play is the antithesis of work. But in the information
technology (IT) industry, companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft have …

Play and art are similar in the sense that they are both difficult to define since distinct
activities, ideas, or events can fall into these categories. Furthermore, art has an inherently …