Online Social Networks (OSN) are new types of web services which provide online communities an environment to gather and meet virtually. The online users are connected to each other via links of trust and utilize the features of the OSN to interact and communicate in an easy socio-technical way....

In this paper a novel form of online users, the “Online Crowds,” is described. “Online Crowds” gather virtually, behave and act collectively and produce effects and phenomena which would not be possible without the Internet [Hof 05]. A remarkable example is “The Million Dollar...

The popularity of social networking sites has increased dramatically over the past decade. A recent report indicated that thirty-eight percent of online users have a social networking profile. Many of these social networking site users (SNS users) post or provide personal information over the...

On Thursday, February 11, 2010, Internet users the world over – keen musicophiles and other – woke to a dire new reality. Many of the World Wide Web’s favourite music blogs (otherwise known as mp3 blogs, for the format of music files they make available for download) had been slain by...

Forty-four EMBA students were randomly assigned to negotiate in either a face-to-face condition or a voice-only condition in an integrative negotiation task— New Recruits (Neale, 1987). We found that candidates in the voice-only condition had less interest in future negotiations than...

Conflict appears to inherently exist in inter-organizational business collaborations often because the organizations involved operate with different processes, norms and goals. Further, in dispersed inter-organizational collaborations, the challenges tend to be even more due to the prevalence of...

Virtual worlds have been the next big thing for some time now. In 2008, more than 100 public virtual worlds received venture capital funding - a significant increase over previous years. Yet virtual worlds have been going bankrupt faster than ever, including several high-profile firms and...

Mass Customization has been portrayed as the ultimate form of marketing and the "business opportunity of the next millennium". This paper presents the results of a case study undertaken with the online t-shirt manufaturer Threadless and its Virtual Community. The literary assumption that...

We recognize that some sharing relationships in social networks are reciprocated (undirected), while others are unreciprocated (directed). We find that in unreciprocated relationships transfers are likely to flow from more to less wealthy households, while reciprocated risk-sharing relationships...

Research on Virtual Communities (VCs) is diversified, covering various disciplines and perspectives. Besides strong research efforts in the field of sociology, VCs with an economical impact are intensely studied in the context of e-business. Considering common VC-actors and their respective...