MMOGs as emerging opportunities for research on virtual organizations and teams

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 232-240

  Assmann, Jakob J ^a   Drescher, Marcus A ^b   Gallenkamp, Julia V ^a   Picot, Arnold ^a   Welpe, Isabell M ^b   Wigand, Rolf T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

ICT; MMOGs; Virtual organizations; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

FUTURE APPLICATIONS; GAME SERVERS; ICT; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MMOGS; ONLINE SURVEYS; RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION; VIRTUAL TEAM;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERNET; POPULATION STATISTICS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84870378502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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