ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES: GLOBAL VILLAGES OR CYBERBALKANIZATION?

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 80-98

  van Alstyne, Marshall ^a   Brynjolfsson, Erik ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNOT LINKS; CONDITION; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; FRAGMENT INTERACTION; IT CAPABILITIES; POLICY CHOICES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85009079030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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