Motivational drivers to develop apps for social software-platforms: The example of Facebook

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1990-2000

  Hilkert, Daniel ^a   Benlian, Alexander ^a   Hess, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complementors; Crowding effects; Facebook applications; Motivations; Software platforms

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; COMPLEMENTORS; CROWDING-EFFECTS; EMPIRICAL DATA; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FACEBOOK; FACEBOOK APPLICATIONS; INCENTIVE SCHEMES; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; JOB OPPORTUNITIES; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE-PLATFORMS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; THEORETICAL MODELS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870345531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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