Making Internet Communities Work: Reflections on an Unusual Business Model

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 50-59

  Krieger, Bernhard L ^a   Muller, Philipp S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AND SECURITY AFFAIRS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business Models; Community; Internet; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 10444244582     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/784580.784587     Document Type: Article

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