Towards a design theory for online communities

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gurzick, David ^a   Lutters, Wayne G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design guidelines; Design science; Online communities

Indexed keywords

DESIGN ARTIFACTS; DESIGN GUIDELINES; DESIGN SCIENCE; DESIGN THEORY; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL LIFE;

DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 70350680762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555619.1555634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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