Virtual Communities and Collaboration

Are Expert Patients Popular in Online Patient Portals?

Srikanth Venkatesan, SUNY Buffalo
Raj Sharman, State University of new York

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Can the Crowd Substitute Experts in Evaluation of Creative Ideas? An Experimental Study Using Business Models

Thomas Goerzen, University of Paderborn
Dennis Kundisch, University of Paderborn

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Crowdfunding Success as a Quality Signal to Venture Capital

Sunghan Ryu, City University of Hong Kong
Keongtae Kim, City University of Hong Kong

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Exploring the Activeness of Professional Online Community Members

Yanyan Shang, Dakota State University
Jie Xiong, University of Nebraska
Jun Liu, Dakota State University

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Group Decision Making in OSS: A Dialectic Perspective on Herding

Christine Abdalla Mikhaeil, Georgia State University
Amrita George, Georgia State University

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“On Here, I’m Team Jacob:" Exploring Feelings of Belongingness in Virtual Communities

Julie Wade, University of South Carolina - Upstate / Clemson University
Jason Thatcher, Clemson University

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On the Effectiveness of eWOM Communications: the Moderating Effect of Consumers' Prior Experience

Hamed QAHRI-SAREMI, UNIVERTSITY OF ILLINOIS at SPRINGFIELD
Ali Montazemi, McMaster University

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Relational Embeddedness, Herding, and Tie Persistence

Swanand Deodhar, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Mani Subramani, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Akbar Zaheer, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

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The Message is More than the Medium: A Study of Media Theories and Impacts

Martin Hassell, Marquette University

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Towards a Taxonomy of Ethical Considerations in Crowdsourcing

David Kocsis, University of Nebraska at Omaha / California Polytechnic State University
Gert-Jan de Vreede, University of South Florida

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User Experience of Enterprise Social Networks and Collaboration

John Wyatt, EMC
Soussan Djamasbi, WPI
Mark Traietti, EMC

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Virtual Social Interaction – An online Model to Improve Retention Rates in Voluntary Professional Associations.

Premalatha Unnikrishnan, Washington State University
Joseph Taylor, washington state university
Laura Aldrich, Iowa Community Action Association

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