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Authority & Leadership - An Eve Dissertation

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Vegeta
Love Death and Robots.
#1 - 2012-04-03 01:03:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Vegeta
Hello

Some of you may know me from way back when, though most of you will not. I don't post here very much any more, but today I want to share with you my final year university dissertation as it covers topics that are familiar to most of you. For a few weeks in February I spent some time interviewing members of large null sec alliances and I thank them for their assistance in helping me complete this project.

The topic is authority and leadership in Eve. It it is written for a degree in social science and the content and style of writing reflects this. Because you are all well versed veterans of Eve and other games, I don't know how much of it will seem obvious to you. The intended audience (my dissertation supervisor) has no knowledge of the game or virtual worlds, and so the text makes explicit much of what we take for granted in Eve. That said, I hope that even the most experienced among you may find something of interest, if only by clarifying and putting into words the things you may already have been aware of. For those who are less experienced, it may give you a glimpse into the roles played by alliance leaders and paint a partial picture of what it takes to be an effective leader.


Eve-files link
masternerdguy
Doomheim
#2 - 2012-04-03 01:04:47 UTC
Leadership lecture? I prefer this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdit6jIcnGs

Big smile

Things are only impossible until they are not.

Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-04-03 01:05:51 UTC
I don't remember anything of you besides, "IT'S OVER 9000!!!".

Sorry...I just had to.

Bounties for all! https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2279821#post2279821

Killer Gandry
The Concilium Enterprises
#4 - 2012-04-03 02:05:28 UTC
Read till:

This account is intentionally limited to
members of Tranquility’s larger null sec alliances who control and wage war over territory, for I
believe it is here that Eve’s leadership structures are most pronounced and amenable to research.

Then lost intrest because of the narrowmindedness of the dissertation.
Aiwha
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-04-03 03:26:43 UTC
masternerdguy wrote:
Leadership lecture? I prefer this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdit6jIcnGs

Big smile




Leadership

Sanity is fun leaving the body.

Vegeta
Love Death and Robots.
#6 - 2012-04-03 09:11:57 UTC
Killer Gandry wrote:
Read till:

This account is intentionally limited to
members of Tranquility’s larger null sec alliances who control and wage war over territory, for I
believe it is here that Eve’s leadership structures are most pronounced and amenable to research.

Then lost intrest because of the narrowmindedness of the dissertation.



Dissertations at this level are necessarily limited in their scope. This one was limited to 12,000 words. More comprehensive research would be feasible for a PhD project.
Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#7 - 2012-04-03 09:20:54 UTC
Hi Veggy, long time no see.

Dolce et decorum est pro Imperium mori

Grumpymunky
Monkey Steals The Peach
#8 - 2012-04-03 09:31:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Grumpymunky
Vegeta wrote:
Dissertations at this level are necessarily limited in their scope. This one was OVER 9000 words. More comprehensive research would be feasible for a PhD project.
fixed

Post with your monkey.

Thread locked due to lack of pants.

Florestan Bronstein
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2012-04-03 09:46:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Florestan Bronstein
Vegeta wrote:
Killer Gandry wrote:
Read till:

This account is intentionally limited to
members of Tranquility’s larger null sec alliances who control and wage war over territory, for I
believe it is here that Eve’s leadership structures are most pronounced and amenable to research.

Then lost intrest because of the narrowmindedness of the dissertation.



Dissertations at this level are necessarily limited in their scope. This one was limited to 12,000 words. More comprehensive research would be feasible for a PhD project.

question is if the topic you chose is well suited to being treated in < 12k words - because of the lack of citable literature on EVE and the presumed complete unfamiliarity of your readers with the topic you have to spend a large share of your dissertation on basic explanations and very little room is left for analysis/evaluation.

With a more conventional topic you could probably have utilized more space to show off your analytic skills.

Quote:
The ability of unhappy group members to vote with their feet or shift their support binds their leader into a forced accountability.

imho that's the most important sentence in your whole dissertation - although I don't really share your conclusion:
the low cost of moving between corporations/alliances also makes rebellions/revolutions much less likely and might actually help to stabilize badly governed corporations (the unhappy ones leave before they had the chance to stir up/mobilize the population at large).

The ease of changing sides and its guaranteed availability sets EVE aside from RL and probably enables some governance models (dictatorships etc) that we wouldn't find desirable in real life.

It would be interesting to see if/how restrictions on movement (such as a very distinct alliance culture that creates loyalty to the alliance as an abstract entity, or the use of recruitment blacklists) impact governance and conflict resolution.
Karim alRashid
Starboard.
#10 - 2012-04-03 10:09:19 UTC
It's interesting, gonna read it.

Pain is weakness leaving the body http://www.youtube.com/user/AlRashidKarim/videos

Ammzi
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#11 - 2012-04-03 11:11:23 UTC
Very interesting read. Smile
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#12 - 2012-04-03 11:24:57 UTC
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Entity
X-Factor Industries
Synthetic Existence
#13 - 2012-04-03 19:50:59 UTC
*is jealous of Chribba's mention in there*

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Vegeta
Love Death and Robots.
#14 - 2012-04-03 20:30:19 UTC
Entity wrote:
*is jealous of Chribba's mention in there*



The next one will have a whole chapter on compulsive collecting syndrome, also known as Entity's disease Big smile
Joran Dravius
Doomheim
#15 - 2012-04-03 21:31:24 UTC
Vertisce Soritenshi wrote:
I don't remember anything of you besides, "IT'S OVER 9000!!!".

Sorry...I just had to.

I think he used to be in m0o?
Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#16 - 2012-04-03 22:19:06 UTC
posting in a dragon ball z thread.
Killer Gandry
The Concilium Enterprises
#17 - 2012-04-04 16:23:16 UTC
Joran Dravius wrote:

I think he used to be in m0o?


You are correct. Vegeta was member of the very illustrious m0o Corp.

Anyone who can't remember or doesn't know about them read this

The created more history in a short time than most larger entities over years.

Liang Nuren
No Salvation
Divine Damnation
#18 - 2012-04-04 16:55:53 UTC
Very cool - thanks for posting it up. I'll try to read it today. Do you mind if I put a blog post up pointing to this thread?

-Liang

I'm an idiot, don't mind me.

Deen Wispa
Sheriff.
Caldari Tactical Operations Command
#19 - 2012-04-04 17:04:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Deen Wispa
There are those who will impose their ideas upon you. And there are those who accept having ideas imposed upon them. The former is the leader. The latter is the follower.

Generally speaking, a dictatorship is what usually works best in EVE. Any sort of attempt at democracy (especially with large alliances/corps) will almost always fail or never succumb to true potential.

If I had the time, I would honestly read your dissertation due to the nature of what I do in real life , but I hope to get a summarized version if possible. Though not likely possible since it is a dissertation :)

High Five. Yeah! C'est La Eve .

Stellar Vix
State War Academy
Caldari State
#20 - 2012-04-04 17:05:43 UTC
Can you explain to me why all the rookies in SWA think I'm the CEO of SWA?

-Vix

SWA Instructor, Commander Select Currently being blamed as SWA's CEO SWA PVP Program

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