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DESRIST
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2009
Springer
Online communities are increasingly important in modern social life. Yet, the diverse collection of guidelines that have directed online community design may not be keeping pace w...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
In the era of knowledge economy, more and more people view online communities of practice (CoPs) as wellspring of precious knowledge. Notably, many researchers support the notion ...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
This paper extends previous research by proposing a model that can help explain ways to motivate member contributions to online communities (OCs). New features in the model will a...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 14 days ago
2012
ACM
We examine patterns of participation by employees who are members of multiple online communities in an enterprise communities service. Our analysis focuses on statistical patterns...
HICSS
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper presents research on the application of the means-end chain (MEC) framework for investigating customers cognitive structure regarding community applications. It is argu...