The Role of an Online Community in Relation to Other Communication Channels in a Business Development Case

We investigated how sales representatives (Salespeople) and members of a service business development department (the Service Dept.) communicated within an informal online community, particularly in relation to their use of other informal and formal communication channels. We found that while the...

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Main Authors: Takahashi, Masamichi, Herman, George, Ito, Atsushi, Nemoto, Keiichi, Yates, JoAnne
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65627