Community commitment: How affect, obligation, and necessity drive online behaviors

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 983-1000

  Bateman, Patrick J ^a   Gray, Peter H ^b   Butler, Brian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Commitment; Online behavior; Online communities; Virtual communities; Virtual groups

Indexed keywords

COMMITMENT; ONLINE BEHAVIOR; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; VIRTUAL GROUP;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870205392     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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