User communities and social software in the video game industry

Long Range Planning

Volumn 44, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 317-343

  Burger Helmchen, Thierry ^a   Cohendet, Patrick ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT; INTRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; USER COMMUNITIES; VIDEO GAME; VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY;

INDUSTRY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MANUFACTURING; SOFTWARE; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 81055156111     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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