"virtual communities in a knowledge-based economy"

You'll find there some references (articles, working papers and other printed and electronic sources) that could be useful in understanding the ways communities operate and their role in controlling complex markets. When possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet.

This site by no means, intend to give an exhauxtive or even comprehensive bibliography on such a vast subject. It's an ongoing listing of what we think of interest in our current research on virtual communities.

The references are broken down into :

• meta-markets and consumers' networks
• cooperation, reciprocity and community governance
• topology of social networks : small world networks and Internet
• hypertext networks as knowledge structuring infrastructure.
• epistemic communities and cognitive modeling
• open source, copyright and patent