Beyond lurking: The invisible followerfeeder in an online community ecosystem

PACIS 2011 - 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cranefield, Jocelyn ^a   Yoong, Pak ^a   Huff, Sid ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Boundary spanner; Follower; Knowledge broker; Knowledge transfer; Lurker; Online community; Polycontextuality

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY-SPANNER; FOLLOWER; KNOWLEDGE BROKER; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; LURKER; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; POLYCONTEXTUALITY;

ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84855837572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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