An investigation of information sharing and seeking behaviors in virtual communities

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Park, Jaehong ^a   Konana, Prabhudev ^b   Gu, Bin ^b   Leung, Alvin Chung Man ^b  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Information seeking and sharing behaviors; Stock message boards; Virtual community usage

Indexed keywords

INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION SHARING; MESSAGE BOARDS; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; SENSE OF BELONGING; SOUTH KOREA; USAGE INTENTION; USER PARTICIPATION; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84870973339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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