The business value of social network technologies: A framework for identifying opportunities for business value and an emerging research program

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1965-1983

  Kettles, Degan ^a   David, Julie Smith ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business value; Social network technology; Social networking

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS VALUE; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 84870314544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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