Global village or cyber-balkans? Modeling and measuring the integration of electronic communities

Management Science

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 851-868

  Van Alstyne, Marshall ^a   Brynjolfsson, Erik ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balkanization; Computerization of society; Economic impacts; Globalization; Information economy; Information flows; Organizational structure; Social networks

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; INFORMATION ECONOMY; INFORMATION FLOWS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

BANDWIDTH; DATA PROCESSING; ECONOMICS; INTERNET; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 22544478813     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1050.0363     Document Type: Article

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