Developing an online business community: A travel industry case study

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Stockdale, Rosemary ^a   Borovicka, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDIES; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; VALUE PROPOSITIONS;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION THEORY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES;

EID: 33749612887     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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