Managing virtual communities - a case study of a viable system

Association for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 37-46

  Rosenkranz, Christoph ^a   Feddersen, Christoph ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b The e Spirit Company GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Online communities; Viable system model; Virtual communities; Virtual community management

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT TEAM; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SUCCESS FACTORS; VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84870223863     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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