virtual communities
Knowledge sharing in virtual communities: A social exchange theory perspective
... in virtual communities from the perspective of social exchange ...in virtual communities in other perspectives, apart from Social Exchange ...
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THE POWER OF PERSONALIZATION: CUSTOMER COLLABORATION AND VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
... a virtual gaming platform in the Internet, where a large part of the leading chess masters and more than 45'000 paying members are interacting (Ginsburg & Weisband ...
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Research on User’s Interaction Participation in Virtual Communities Based on the Information Ecology Theory
... Information man in this paper refers to users in virtual communities. From the angle of information man, trust among information men is emphasized. Trust, reflecting users’ comprehensive evaluation to ...
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Research on Information Adoption Behavior in Virtual Communities Based on the Information Ecology Theory
... the virtual community [9]. It can promote the development of virtual communities, accelerate the speed of information transmission, and have a positive effect on users as ...
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A SERVICE ORIENTED FRAMEWORK FOR MOBILE BUSINESS VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
... Current investigations on virtual communities and virtual organizations focus often on service oriented architecture. (Baglietto, 2005) presents such an architecture implemented in the case of cargo ...
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Trust in virtual communities involved in free/open source projects: an empirical study
... Open source is rapidly gaining credibility as a viable approach to software development. The open source community has proved itself capable of delivering high quality and commercially successful products such as Apache ...
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Interprofessional learning and virtual communities: an opportunity for the future
... narrative-based virtual communities (VCs), meets this ...these communities has been very positive and they offer a unique and innovative approach to IPL in ways that immerse learners from many ...
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Agent mediation and management of virtual communities: a redefinition of the traditional community concept
... the virtual PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) shown in the ...humans, virtual communities may be comprised of a federation of virtual entities, avatars, robots and intelligent, though ...
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To Enliven Virtual Communities of Practice through Gamification
... these communities became virtual, in the sense that most of the inner- communication and collaboration are supported by synchronous and asynchronous electronic ...these virtual communities ...
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Chapter 6 Online Auctions, Virtual Communities, and Web Portals
... In Chapters 3 and 4, you learned how businesses are using the Web to create online identities, reach customers, and sell to them. In Chapter 5, you learned how businesses are using the Web to purchase goods and work with ...
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Using Organisational Culture to Enhance Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities
... As such, the remaining option is that the rejection of the hypotheses could represent a real finding of the research. In Virtual Communities, unlike in real communities, there may not be a ...
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Towards an Evaluation Methodology for the Development of Research Oriented Virtual Communities
... A virtual community is a group of people whose shared needs and/or interests are largely communicated within, and mediated by Web- enabled interactions, ...some virtual communities ...as ...
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Mobile Virtual Communities and Network Marketing
... basic Virtual Communities features 2) the content provider service and 3) the billing service ...the communities, such as the file storage service, the video encoding service and context ...
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Think global, act global : Towards a model for building virtual communities of practice for European research projects
... 1997). Virtual communities are a form of CSSNs that support strong, weak, and stressful social ties among community members (Garton, Haythornthwaite & Wellman, ...
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Building Virtual Communities for Research Collaboration
... the virtual) Lab space/community, and for observing its effects on community ...that virtual community builders act to find the best ways to sustain the needs of an existing real ...on virtual ...
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Individual knowledge sharing behavior in dynamic virtual communities: the perspectives of network effects and status competition
... a virtual community as the sharing of community-related information, ideas, suggestions, and expertise among individuals (Yu et ...discussing virtual communities, social network theory, community ...
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An Exploration of Leadership in Virtual Communities of Practice
... the virtual world as a collaborative tool for ...and communities of practice. Technological advances in virtual communications and social networks create additional opportunities for ...
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Interpretative insights into interpersonal trust and effectiveness of virtual communities of open source software (OSS) developers
... of virtual communities of developers who are able to produce high quality, cost effective software which is distributed free via the ...on virtual communities of developers involved in ...
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Social Networks in Transnational and Virtual Communities
... Apart from benefits arising from CSCW, Kimball and Rheingold (2000) outline the economic benefits to online social networks, as does Annen (Forthcoming) who links financial benefits with high levels of social capital. An ...
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Bringing Virtual Communities into a Marketing Strategy to Create Purchase Intentions in the Social Media Era
... A virtual community is a new form of social interaction that provides an alternative way for connectivity and ...in virtual communities is a ...effect virtual communities can have will ...
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