Satisfaction and Coordination in Virtual Communities

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2699-2707

  Chin, Pauline O ^a   Cooke, Donna ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; management of information technology; Virtual communities

Indexed keywords

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY;

ATTITUDE; MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEMBER SATISFACTION; NEW ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; PROJECT COORDINATION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84893274974     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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