A framework for virtual community business success: The case of the internet chess club

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 3085-3094

  Ginsburg, Mark ^a   Weisband, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

COMMUNICATION PATHWAYS; ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURES; FEEDBACK CHANNELS; VISUAL INTERFACE TOOLS;

ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES;

EID: 12344314040     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/hicss.2004.1265466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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