What are users' intentions towards real money trading in massively multiplayer online games?

Electronic Markets

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 105-115

  Constantiou, Ioanna ^a   Legarth, Morten Fosselius ^a   Olsen, Kasper Birch ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dual self model; Massively multiplayer online games; Real money trading; User intentions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864864905     PISSN: 10196781     EISSN: 14228890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12525-011-0076-9     Document Type: Article

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