Users' influence on the success of online communities

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Assmann, Jakob ^a   Sandner, Philipp ^a   Ahrens, Sophie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; LOG FILES; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; OFFLINE; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GAME THEORY; SURVEYS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650761023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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