Using value nets to map emerging Business Models in Massively Multiplayer Online games

9th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: I.T. and Value Creation, PACIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1356-1367

  Alves, Tiago Reis ^a   Roque, Licínio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Business Model; Massively Multiplayer Online games; Value networks

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER GAMES; NEW BUSINESS MODELS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE; VALUE CHAINS; VALUE CREATION; VALUE NETWORK; VALUE-NET;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERNET;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053552889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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