Social applications: Revenue models, delivery channels, and critical success factors - an exploratory study and evidence from the Spanish-speaking market

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 108-122

  Cortimiglia, Marcelo Nogueira ^a   Ghezzi, Antonio ^b   Renga, Filippo ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business models; Content sharing; Critical success factors; Social networks; Social technologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051924525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07181876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0718-18762011000200010     Document Type: Article

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