The rise and fall of an online project. Is bureaucracy killing efficiency in open knowledge production?

Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OPENSYM 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jullien, Nicolas ^a   Crowston, Kevin ^b   Ortega, Felipe ^c  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION; MODELLING METHODOLOGY; ONLINE PROJECTS; RETURNS TO SCALE; WIKIPEDIA;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84963611659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2788993.2789844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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