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Introduction

Introduction to the Special Issue: Online Communities

Lee Sproull

New York University, Stern School of Business, USA, lsproull@ stern.nyu.edu

William Dutton

Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK, William.Dutton{at}oii.ox.ac.uk

Sara Kiesler

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, Kiesler{at}andrew.cmu.edu

The Internet has impelled scholars to expand their views of organization. In 2005, Organization Studies called for papers about online communities that would stretch the field of organization studies. The articles in this special issue use empirical research and theory to re-examine fundamental questions of organizational boundaries, community, and member motivation.

Key Words: Online communities • electronic groups • Internet.

Organization Studies, Vol. 28, No. 3, 277-281 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607076013
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