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WIKIS
2010
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Project management in the Wikipedia community
A feature of online communities and notably Wikipedia is the increasing use of managerial techniques to coordinate the efforts of volunteers. In this short paper, we explore the ...
Hang Ung, Jean-Michel Dalle
HICSS
2009
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Understanding Continuance Intention of Knowledge Creation in Online Communities from a Social-Psychological Perspective
Grounded on both social cognitive theory and expectation-disconfirmation theory (EDT), this study aims to investigate how individuals’ continuance intention of knowledge creatio...
Shih-Wei Chou, Ching-Chang Lee, Yu-Chieh Chang, Ch...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Social capital in online communities
Online communities are connecting hordes of individuals and generating rich social network data. The social capital that resides within these networks is largely unknown. We propo...
Matthew S. Smith
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Virtual gifts and guanxi: supporting social exchange in a chinese online community
Significant cultural differences persist between East and West. Software systems that have been proven to operate efficiently within one culture can fail in the context of the oth...
Jiang Yang, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada A. Adamic
IJKL
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Lurking: a challenge or a fruitful strategy? A comparison between lurkers and active participants in an online corporate communi
: For todays organisations to obtain competitive advantages, online corporate Communities of Practice (CoPs) are indispensable. However, often the majority of its participants does...
Mirjam Neelen, Sibren Fetter