Investigating member commitment to virtual communities using an integrated perspective

Internet Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 199-210

  Wang, Edward Shih Tse ^a   Chen, Lily Shui Lien ^b   Tsai, Bi Kun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Communities; Community networks; Customer retention; Facilitators; Human computer interaction; Social networking sites; User behaviour; User studies; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863339295     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10662241211214566     Document Type: Article

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