Business ecosystem perspective on value co-creation in the Web 2.0 era: implications for entrepreneurial opportunities

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 112-130

  Le, Thuong T ^a   Tarafdar, Monideepa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

business ecosystems; crowdsourcing; entrepreneurial opportunities; networks; value co creation; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860856428     PISSN: 17425360     EISSN: 17425379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEV.2009.029099     Document Type: Article

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