Stay on the Wikipedia task: When task-related disagreements slip into personal and procedural conflicts

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1634-1648

  Arazy, Ofer ^a   Yeo, Lisa ^b   Nov, Oded ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

human factors; knowledge management; social psychology

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; CONTENT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GROUP PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODELS; UNDERSPECIFICATION; WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84880322792     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22869     Document Type: Article

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