Managers and group leaders of a community may not have enough information to help them direct the community development. In this paper, we adopt social network analysis, graph the...
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...
As technology becomes more embedded in our daily lives, there is a great deal of hope about the use of information technology to achieve positive community outcomes like increasin...
Cecelia Merkel, Lu Xiao, Umer Farooq, Craig H. Gan...
We propose an efficient and novel approach for discovering communities in real-world random networks. Communities are formed by subsets of nodes in a graph, which are closely rela...
Active participation of a person in a community is a powerful indicator of the person's interests, preferences, beliefs and (often) social and demographic context. Community m...
This paper examines how different facets of favorable user behavior drive the success of an online community by using a unique data set with surveys from 1,389 participants from t...