Imagery and picture sharing are an important and growing part of online communities. Many prior studies of online interaction and collaboration rely heavily on text. This study ta...
We examine learning culture in a popular online game, World of Warcraft. We analyze the way players learn this complex game through chat conversation with peers. We describe three...
Virtual project management in global organizations is both challenging and important. Being able to identify and apply best practices is an essential skill, as is an understanding...
Abstract— Smartocracy is a social software system for collective decision making. The system is composed of a social network that links individuals to those they trust to make go...
Marko A. Rodriguez, Daniel J. Steinbock, Jennifer ...
Externalities occur among agglomerated firms. Scale externalities occur between firms in an industry with similar activities. Scope externalities occur when heterogeneous activiti...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) has resulted in the presence of very descriptive privacy policies on healthcare websites. These policies ar...
Julia Brande Earp, Matthew W. Vail, Annie I. Ant&o...
In recent years, extensive studies of many interesting aspects of virtual community dynamics promoted a better understanding of this area. One of the most challenging problems fac...
The objective of this paper is to suggest a systematic means by which the timing and focus of information technology policies can be used to optimize supply chain performance and ...
Information systems (IS) research employs a wide range of theory, drawn from numerous disciplines. Over the course of the past three decades, the proliferation of theory has creat...