Purpose – This paper aims to study network effects and the impacts on market structure in the specific context of China's network industries. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is organized in the mode of “concept-model analysis-empirical examination”. Starting from the concept of...

Purpose – This paper aims to study network effects and the impacts on market structure in the specific context of China's network industries. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is organized in the mode of “concept‐model analysis‐empirical examination”. Starting from the concept...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate to which extent the concept of communities of practice (CoPs) can be applied to online communities and to explore how organizations can better utilize online social structures for their knowledge management practice....