Sustainable virtual communities: Suggestions from the colonial model

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 309-341

  Porra, Jaana ^a   Parks, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonial systems; Virtual communities; Virtual community sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747588074     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-005-0002-9     Document Type: Article

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