The impact and evolution of group diversity in online open collaboration

Management Science

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1668-1686

  Ren, Yuqing ^a   Chen, Jilin ^b   Riedl, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Group performance; Online open collaboration; Self organizing groups; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

LIFE CYCLE; OPEN SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

DIVERSITY; GROUP PERFORMANCE; ONLINE OPEN COLLABORATION; SELF-ORGANIZING GROUPS; WIKIPEDIA;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84975109044     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2015.2178     Document Type: Article

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