Electronic community factories: The model and its application in the tourism sector

Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-81

  Akoumianakis, Demosthenes ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Community management; Electronic community factories; Practice toolkits; Virtual ethnography

Indexed keywords

VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMMUNITY IS; COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT; CROSS-ORGANIZATIONS; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITY FACTORY; ITS APPLICATIONS; MODEL APPLICATION; PRACTICE TOOLKIT; VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICES; VIRTUAL ETHNOGRAPHY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 77950339091     PISSN: 13895753     EISSN: 15729362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10660-010-9045-1     Document Type: Article

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