Information quality in wikipedia: The effects of group composition and task conflict

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 71-98

  Arazy, Ofer ^a   Nov, Oded ^b   Patterson, Raymond ^c   Yeo, Lisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

co creation; cognitive diversity; collaboration; community based production; group composition; information quality; task conflict; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

CO-CREATION; COGNITIVE DIVERSITY; COLLABORATION; COMMUNITY-BASED PRODUCTION; GROUP COMPOSITION; INFORMATION QUALITY; TASK CONFLICT; WIKIPEDIA;

ABRASION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 79955627082     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222270403     Document Type: Article

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