The [Wikipedia] world is not flat: On the organizational structure of online production communities

ECIS 2014 Proceedings - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Arazy, Ofer ^a   Nov, Oded ^b   Ortega, Felipe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Access privileges; Hierarchy; Organizational structure; Peer production; Social roles; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ACCESS PRIVILEGES; HIERARCHY; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; PEER PRODUCTION; SOCIAL ROLES; WIKIPEDIA;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84905851493     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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