Exploring and mitigating social loafing in online communities

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 768-777

  Shiue, Yih Chearng ^a   Chiu, Chao Min ^b   Chang, Chen Chi ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NANYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Group cohesion; Online community; Perceived risk; Social capital; Social loafing

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL FACTORS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; LEARNING GROUPS; MEDIA RICHNESS; OFFLINE; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE USERS; PERCEIVED RISK; RESEARCH MODELS; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL LOAFING; SOCIAL TIES; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

ADHESION; RESEARCH;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955227653     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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