Organisation and Visualisation of Tacit Knowledge in Virtual Communities

Bruynseels, Koen; Vos, Johan

doi:10.1007/3-540-45016-5_3

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“…Scholars have documented the effectiveness and use of virtual communities in society to foster, for example, civic behavior (Blanchard and Horan, 1998) and social resistance movements (De, 2003). Virtual communities can also be used to create, gather, organize, and manage knowledge (Bruynseels and Vos, 2000;Daniel et al, 2002;Jansen et al, 2000;Schubert and Koch, 2002). They have also been used as a management tool in organizations.…”

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Business models and operational issues in the Chinese online game industry

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2007

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Business models and operational issues in the Chinese online game industry

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2007

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“…Companies have also realized the organizational and commercial and potential of this social phenomenon. As scholars have pointed out, virtual communities can be used to create, gather, organize, and manage knowledge [5,11,19,39].…”

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Property rights, legal issues, and business models in virtual world communities

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2006

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This paper uses a business model framework to help identify the issues that developers of virtual worlds have to address as their enterprises mature. While most virtual worlds have adopted subscription models there is an increasing trend toward selling digital items directly to users. This arises from the emergent markets linking real world currency to items existing on company servers. This practice has resulted in controversial and unresolved legal issues. Communities that arise from virtual worlds can be classified according to level and type of control. Lack of control can lead to a Hobbesian world of predation and vigilantism. Strong developer control can be exerted to protect users but communities adopting shared governance with users are likely to become more common.

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Business Models for Online Communities: The Case of the Virtual Worlds Industry in China

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Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Organisation and Visualisation of Tacit Knowledge in Virtual Communities

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Business models and operational issues in the Chinese online game industry

Business models and operational issues in the Chinese online game industry

Property rights, legal issues, and business models in virtual world communities

Business Models for Online Communities: The Case of the Virtual Worlds Industry in China

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