Virtual Worlds: Multi-Disciplinary Research Opportunities

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 17-25

  Bray, David A ^a   Konsynski, Benn R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information Systems; Inter world; Intraworld; Neurobiology; Organizational Governance; Political Science; Virtual Businesses; Virtual Currencies; Virtual Governance; Virtual Property

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882449405     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1314234.1314239     Document Type: Article

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