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Volume 6, Issue 1

January 2006

Special Issue: Virtual Communities in E-Commerce

Issue Editors:

Mark Ginsburg,
Petra Schubert

7 articles in this issue

Editors' note
Mark Ginsburg
Petra Schubert
EditorialNotes Pages: 5 - 6
Non-public and public online community participation: Needs, attitudes and behavior
Blair Nonnecke
Dorine Andrews
Jenny Preece
OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 20
Power relations in virtual communities: An ethnographic study
Lemai Nguyen
Luba Torlina
Brian Corbitt
OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 37
Property rights, legal issues, and business models in virtual world communities
Ian MacInnes
OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 56
Community based innovation: How to integrate members of virtual communities into new product development
Johann Füller
Michael Bartl
Hans Mühlbacher
OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 73
Multinational web uses and gratifications: Measuring the social impact of online community participation across national boundaries
Patricia Grace-Farfaglia
Ad Dekkers
Sung-Hee Park
OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 101
Mobile communities: How viable are their business models? An exemplary investigation of the leisure industry
Petra Schubert
J. Felix Hampe
OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 121