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Social Websites: Practices and Tools for Emerging Markets

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Social websites can be described as those websites that allow people to create online communities and share user-created content (UCC). Access to a particular social website may be open to anyone or limited to people belonging to a specific organization, for example, a firm or an academic institution.

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  1. Department of Economics, Second University of Naples, Capua, Italy

    Manlio Del Giudice & Maria Rosaria Della Peruta

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    Elias G. Carayannis

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Del Giudice, M., Della Peruta, M., Carayannis, E. (2014). Social Websites: Practices and Tools for Emerging Markets. In: Social Media and Emerging Economies. SpringerBriefs in Business. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02490-5_2

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