Rules and Roles vs. Consensus: Self-Governed Deliberative Mass Collaboration Bureaucracies

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 576-594

  Joyce, Elisabeth ^a   Pike, Jacqueline C ^b   Butler, Brian S ^c  

^a EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

bureaucracy; governance; mass collaboration; wikis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876169188     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764212469366     Document Type: Article

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