Business models in emerging online services

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 938-946

  Lyons, Kelly ^a   Playford, Corrie ^a   Messinger, Paul R ^b   Niu, Run H ^c   Stroulia, Eleni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c WEBSTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business Model; Online Profit Model; Social Computing; Software as a Service; Virtual Worlds

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; PROFIT MODEL; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

PROFITABILITY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870205663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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