Effects of feedback and peer pressure on contributions to enterprise social media

GROUP'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-70

  Brzozowski, Michael J ^a   Sandholm, Thomas ^a   Hogg, Tad ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Blogs; Contributions; Feedback; Social media

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BLOGGING; CONTRIBUTIONS; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LARGE ORGANIZATIONS; PARTICIPATION RATE; PEER PRESSURE; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES; TIME PRESSURES;

INTERNET; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; PERSONNEL;

BLOGS;

EID: 70849112950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1531674.1531684     Document Type: Conference Paper

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