Paper Info
Title
Environmental jolts: impact of exogenous factors on online community participation
Abstract
Few studies of online communities take exogenous factors into account while explaining community participation. We present preliminary results from a study investigating the impact of steward companies' actions on online community participation. We identified two events: (1) open sourcing of Java by Sun and (2) acquisition of Sun (and consequently of Java) by Oracle, and examined participation in their developer online communities. We found significant change in participation levels around each event with both significant increases and decreases. We conjecture that participation increased if the action was perceived as supportive by developers (e.g. Sun's open sourcing of Java) whereas it decreased if the action was perceived as detrimental by developers (e.g. Oracle's acquisition of Sun).
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1958824.1958936
CSCW
Keywords
Field
DocType
significant change,preliminary result,exogenous factor,online community,online community participation,significant increase,developer online community,participation level,environmental jolt,community participation,steward company,design
Online community,Community participation,Computer science,Simulation,Knowledge management,Oracle,Online participation,Java,Marketing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aditya Johri118731.05
Oded Nov298463.88
Raktim Mitra361.88