Drivers of knowledge contribution in open fora: Findings from wikipedians

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1332-1341

  Dutta, Amitava ^a   Roy, Rahul ^b   Seetharaman, Priya ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Ability; Contribution; Focus group; Motivation; Open content; Opportunity; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ABILITY; CONTRIBUTION; FOCUS-GROUP; OPEN-CONTENT; OPPORTUNITY; WIKIPEDIA;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MOTIVATION;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84870422105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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