The Secret to Successful User Communities: An Analysis of Computer Associates’ User Groups
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Keywords
Managing User Communities; Collective Action; Information Sharing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ICT-2006-12-22 (Information and Communication Technologies)
- NEP-INO-2006-12-22 (Innovation)
- NEP-NET-2006-12-22 (Network Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2006-12-22 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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