WHAT’S INSIDE A SUCCESSFUL VIRTUAL COMMUNITY BUSINESS? THE CASE OF THE INTERNET CHESS CLUB

9th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 386-394

  Ginsburg, Mark ^a   Weisband, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BUSINESS MODELS; FACTORS ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RESOURCE; INTRINSIC FACTORS; LARGE-SCALES; ON-LINE GAMING; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT; PROPERTY; RESEARCH TESTBED; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846000738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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