Enhancing the motivational affordance of information systems: The effects of real-time performance feedback and goal setting in group collaboration environments

Management Science

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 724-742

  Jung, J H ^a   Schneider, Christoph ^b   Valacich, Joseph ^c  

^a Catholic University of Daegu   (South Korea)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Computer mediated idea generation; Goal setting; Human computer interaction; Motivational affordance; Performance feedback

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; COLLABORATION TOOL; GOAL SETTING; GROUP COLLABORATION; GROUP WORK; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; IDEA GENERATION; INTEGRATING RESEARCH; PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK; PERFORMANCE GAIN; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER); KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MOTIVATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 77950846294     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1090.1129     Document Type: Article

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