Virtual community ventures: Success drivers in the case of online video sharing

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1533-1541

  Loebbecke, Claudia ^a   Huyskens, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community; Entrepreneurship; Success; Venture

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL MARKETS; COMMUNITY; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; FACEBOOK; NETWORK EFFECTS; ONLINE VIDEO; SUCCESS; VENTURE; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; YOUTUBE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84870357477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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