Turbulent stability of emergent roles: The dualistic nature of self-organizing knowledge coproduction

Information Systems Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 792-812

  Arazy, Ofer ^a   Daxenberger, Johannes ^b   Lifshitz Assaf, Hila ^c   Nov, Oded ^d   Gurevych, Iryna ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e German Institute for Educational Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artifact centric; Boundary infrastructure; Coproduction; Emergent roles; Mobility; Online production communities; Stability; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HARDWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARTIFACT-CENTRIC; BOUNDARY INFRASTRUCTURE; CO-PRODUCTION; EMERGENT ROLES; ONLINE PRODUCTION COMMUNITIES; WIKIPEDIA;

WEBSITES;

EID: 85010392518     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2016.0647     Document Type: Article

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