A comparative study of virtual communities in Bangladesh and the USA

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 82-90

  Talukder, Majharul ^a   Yeow, Paul H P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Country based virtual communities; Cultural differences; Developing countries; Languages and norms; Marketing; Website usability

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT; ELECTRONIC CATALOGS; MARKETING ASPECTS; STRUCTURED MESSAGES; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; WEBSITE USABILITY;

COMMERCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; MARKETING; USABILITY ENGINEERING; WEBSITES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34547883516     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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