Investigating the determinants of contribution value in Wikipedia

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 83-92

  Zhao, Sesia J ^a,b,c   Zhang, Kem Z K ^a   Wagner, Christian ^c   Chen, Huaping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CHINA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORPORATION   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Contributor type; Critical mass; Interest; Resource; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

CONTRIBUTOR TYPE; CRITICAL MASS; INTEREST; RESOURCE; WIKIPEDIA;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84870452669     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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