NDLI: Mobile communities: How viable are their business models? An exemplary investigation of the leisure industry

Content Provider	SpringerLink
Author	Schubert, Petra Hampe, J. Felix
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	Communities (especially Virtual Communities) of Interest have been the focus of substantial discussion in academic literature. This paper addresses Communities of Interest within the leisure industry and discusses possible business models for the parties operating the platform. The described community platform is an innovative value added service concept for a mobile coordination support for individuals—A Mobile Community Support System. In this paper we extend the discussion about mobile communities to hybrid communities. The communities are hybrid in two ways: they use two different access channels, the Web and mobile devices, and they are built on real-world leisure communities that constitute themselves in the form of buddy lists in the virtual world of an ICT supported platform. We briefly depict the state of the art of IT in the leisure industry and describe the empirical aspects of the project objectives of the MCOR (Mobile Community Online Reservation) system. We conclude with some final remarks about design considerations and a blueprint for future research.
Starting Page	103
Ending Page	121
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13895753
Journal	Electronic Commerce Research
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15729362
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-01-01
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Mobile communities Mobile CRM Mobile commerce Mobile business Leisure industry Computer Communication Networks Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory Electronic Commerce/e-business Business/Management Science Operations Research/Decision Theory Business Information Systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics, Econometrics and Finance Human-Computer Interaction

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