THE VIRTUAL COMMONS: WHY FREE-RIDING CAN BE TOLERATED IN FILE SHARING NETWORKS

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 807-812

  Krishnan, Ramayya ^a   Smith, Michael D ^a   Tang, Zhulei ^b   Telang, Rahul ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

ANALYTIC MODELING; CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURES; COST AND BENEFITS; FILE SHARING NETWORKS; FREE-RIDING; INFORMATION GOODS; INFORMATION SHARING MECHANISM; P2P NETWORK; PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 85138690342     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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