Identifying social computing dimensions: A multidimensional scaling study

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ali Hassan, Hossam ^a   Nevo, Dorit ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attributes; Dimensions; Multidimensional scaling (mds); Organizational benefits; Property fitting (profit); Social computing; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTES; DIMENSIONS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; ORGANIZATIONAL BENEFITS; PROPERTY FITTING (PROFIT); SOCIAL COMPUTING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY; TAXONOMIES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84870970395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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