Motivation and its mechanisms in virtual communities
CRIWG'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Collaboration and technology
Designing the software support for partially virtual communities
CRIWG'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Collaboration and Technology
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The importance of virtual communities is well established in Information Systems (IS) research. A significant number of studies on this topic have focused on investigating motivators and inhibitors of members' participation. However, virtual communities are not static, but dynamically evolve, and often 'die' to be replaced by other virtual communities. To date, there is very little research that investigates the life cycle of virtual communities. The goal of this research is to identify influences that could explain this phenomenon. We summarize our insights in the form of a conceptual model.