Real commerce in virtual worlds

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Vitzthum, Sascha ^a   Kathuria, Abhishek ^b   Konsynski, Benn ^b  

^a ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile enterprises; Digital options; Immersion; IS platform; Second life; Turbulent environments; Virtual commerce; Virtual organizations; Virtual teams; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

AGILE ENTERPRISE; DIGITAL OPTIONS; IMMERSION; IS PLATFORM; SECOND LIFE; TURBULENT ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION; VIRTUAL TEAM; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

BIOGRAPHIES; COMMERCE; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84870963175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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