Understanding sustained participation in transactional virtual communities

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-22

  Sun, Yongqiang ^a   Fang, Yulin ^b   Lim, Kai H ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Expectancy value theory; Knowledge sharing; Social learning; Sustained participation; Transactional virtual community

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; EXPECTANCY-VALUE THEORY; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; SOCIAL LEARNING; SUSTAINED PARTICIPATION; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 84862800892     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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