Making real money in virtual worlds: MMORPGs and emerging business opportunities, challenges and ethical implications in metaverses

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 610-622

  Papagiannidis, Savvas ^a   Bourlakis, Michael ^b   Li, Feng ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility and ethics; Entrepreneur; Massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG); Metaverse; Virtual world

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; SOCIAL ASPECTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE ROLE PLAYING GAME; VIRTUAL IDENTITIES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENTREPRENEUR; ETHICS; INTERNET; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 44449124724     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2007.04.007     Document Type: Article

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