Organizing without formal organization: Group identification, goal setting and social modeling in directing online production

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 935-944

  Zhu, Haiyi ^a   Kraut, Robert ^a   Kittur, Aniket ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

directing behaviors; governance mechanisms; group goals; group identification; online production communities

Indexed keywords

DIRECTING BEHAVIORS; GOAL SETTING; GROUP GOALS; GROUP IDENTIFICATION; GROUP MEMBERS; GROUP ROLES; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ROLE MODEL; SOCIAL EVENTS; SOCIAL MODELING; SPILL OVER; WIKIPEDIA;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION; WEBSITES;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84863421653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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