The emergence of online community leadership

Information Systems Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 165-187

  Johnson, Steven L ^a   Safadi, Hani ^b   Faraj, Samer ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication and collaboration; Knowledge management; Leadership; Natural language processing; Network analysis; Online communities

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS; WEBSITES;

BOUNDARY SPANNING; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; LEADERSHIP; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NETWORK CENTRALITIES; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; TEXTUAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 84929162930     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2014.0562     Document Type: Article

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