Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the formation, maintenance and disintegration of a fringe Twitter community in order to understand if offline community structure applies to online communities. Design/methodology/approach – The research adopted Big Data methodological...

COVID-19 has caused significant and unforeseen problems for entrepreneurs. While entrepreneurs would normally seek social support to help deal with these issues, due to social distancing, physical networks are often not available. Consequently, entrepreneurs must turn to alternative support...

In recent years online communities have become popular as a way for dispersed members to interact and share ideas. However, there is limited research on the systemic analysis of such groups. In this paper the authors draw on systems research to suggest that one can only understand or interpret...