Moderating effects of culture on virtual social networks usage and human development

Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Krishnan, Satish ^a   Lim, John ^a   Teo, Thompson S H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Archival data; Culture; Human development; Virtual social networks

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ARCHIVAL DATA; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; MODERATING EFFECT; POWER DISTANCES; UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE; VIRTUAL SOCIAL NETWORKS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84928492228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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