Sociological factors affecting trust development in Virtual Communities

Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 591-599

  Ho, Sharon ^a   Daneshgar, Farhad ^b   Van Toorn, Christine ^b  

^a KPMG Australia   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SURVEYS; PHYSICAL WORLD; SOCIOLOGICAL FACTOR; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84857468755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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