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http://dx.doi.org/10.15813/kmr.2022.23.2.001

Thesis of the Metaverse Concept and Proposing Research Direction  

Ryu, Sunghan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Yun, Haejung (Ewha Womans University)
Park, Jaehyun (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
Chang, Younghoon (Beijing Institute of Technology)
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Knowledge Management Research / v.23, no.2, 2022 , pp. 1-13 More about this Journal
Abstract
Metaverse has been encountering in our daily lives, and it has dynamically changed people's way of working, educating, and entertaining. During the Covid-19, people has been more immersed with virtual world. For example, the virtual environments have created new form and features of our remote work, online education, entertainment, and so on. Also, some people make a strong tie with their avatar to live in a virtual world. Indeed, it became a new normal life now. With this radical social and technological change, the metaverse has become a core issue for the communities of researchers and practitioners as well, and a variety of meaningful research and products have been conducted so far. Nevertheless, it still is lack of diverse theoretical, empirical, and practical studies, dealing with this huge socio-technical shift with the metaverse. Therefore, in this special issue commentary, we suggest potential metaverse research issues and topics, which highlight how management, organization, and information systems researchers could dance with the ongoing metaverse ecosystem for creating more productive research performances.
Keywords
Metaverse; Platform; Ecology; Commerce; Entertainment; Remote work; Cyber education; Public metaverse;
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