A motivation and effort model for members of wireless communities

Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bina, Maria ^a   Giaglis, George M ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Collective action; Community based WLANs; Intrinsic and extrinsic motives; Self determination theory

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMMUNITY-BASED WLANS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC MOTIVES; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; RESEARCH ISSUES; SELF-DETERMINATION THEORIES; THEORETICAL EXPLANATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 84870648793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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