Governing social production in the internet: The case of wikipedia

19th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Aaltonen, Aleksi ^a   Lanzara, Giovan Francesco ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capability theory; Governance; Social production; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

CAPABILITY THEORY; GOVERNANCE; LEARNING PHENOMENON; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TRANSACTIONS COSTS; WIKIPEDIA;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84870644507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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