Revisiting the Virtual Community Business Model

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2716-2726

  Leimeister, Jan Marco ^a   Krcmar, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business Model; Business Sustainability; Online Community; Success Factors; Virtual Community

Indexed keywords

VIRTUAL REALITY;

BUSINESS MODELS; BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY; COMMUNITY IS; DATA COLLECTION; DOCUMENTS ANALYSIS; INTERNET BASED; NEW ECONOMY; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; SUCCESS FACTORS; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85139054641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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