Converting online community visitors into online consumers

Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 54-60

  Shan, Lee Moh ^a   Sutanto, Juliana ^a   Kankanhalli, Atreyi ^a   Tan, Bernard C Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 77958175635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-563-4.ch011     Document Type: Chapter

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