Encouraging participation in virtual communities through usability and sociability development: An empirical investigation

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 96-114

  Lu, Xianghua ^a   Phang, Chee Wei ^a   Yu, Jie ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Continuous participation; Sociability; Usability; Virtual communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053986742     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2038056.2038062     Document Type: Article

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