Can social capital be transferred cross the boundary of the real and virtual worlds? An empirical investigation of twitter

Journal of Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-156

  Ye, Qiang ^a   Fang, Bin ^a   He, Wei ^b   Po An Hsieh, J J ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Google; Social capital transference; Social network; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865298735     PISSN: 19389027     EISSN: 15266133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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