Should I stay or should I go: The role of referrals on online community member turnover and tenure

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bateman, Patrick J ^a   Gray, Peter H ^b   Butler, Brian S ^c  

^a YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Online communities; Participation; Referrals; Social media; Tenure; Turnover

Indexed keywords

ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PARTICIPATION; REFERRALS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TENURE; TURNOVER;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870971845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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