Continued participation in online innovation communities: Does community response matter equally for everyone?

Information Systems Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1112-1130

  Zhang, Chen ^a   Hahn, Jungpil ^b   De, Prabuddha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community response; Continued participation; Member roles; Online innovation communities; Open source software development (OSSD)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONTINUED PARTICIPATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT; LONGITUDINAL DATA; MEMBER ROLES; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE INNOVATIONS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84891755069     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2013.0485     Document Type: Article

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