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Virtual-world alchemy: Implications for service engineering from mobile social games in Japan

There is an increasing visibility of mobile social games in Japan. The radical growth of item-purchasing in mobile social games provides a new perspective for service engineering. The author comes to recognize that the know-how in mobile social games provides lessons for further general service engineering. The author proposes the concept of virtual-world alchemy for parsing the new paradigm of service engineering.