Investigating the non-linear relationships in the expectancy theory: The case of crowdsourcing marketplace

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2012, AMCIS 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 86-96

  Sun, Yongqiang ^a   Wang, Nan ^b   Yin, Chunxiao ^b   Che, Tong ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Effort; Expectancy theory; Non linear relationship; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; EFFORT; EXPECTANCY THEORY; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; SELF EFFICACY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84877887150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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