Towards assessing the success of social software in corporate environments

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 5663-5672

  Raeth, Philip ^a   Smolnik, Stefan ^a   Urbach, Nils ^a   Zimmer, Christian ^a  

^a European Business School EBS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information systems success; Social software; Weblogs; Wikis

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CORPORATE CONTEXTS; CORPORATE ENVIRONMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS SUCCESS; IS SUCCESS MODEL; IT BUDGETS; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; WEBLOGS; WIKIS;

PROFITABILITY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870329399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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