Bubbling Up the Good Ideas: A Two-Mode Network Analysis of an Intra-Organizational Idea Challenge
| Autor: | Wenhong Chen, John Sibley Butler, Bryan Stephens |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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050402 sociology
Knowledge management Computer Networks and Communications business.industry 05 social sciences Crowdsourcing Popularity Corporation Homophily Computer Science Applications World Wide Web symbols.namesake 0504 sociology 0502 economics and business Computer-supported cooperative work symbols Matthew effect Sociology Form of the Good business Social network analysis 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 21:210-229 |
| ISSN: | 1083-6101 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jcc4.12158 |
| Popis: | Organizations have been experimenting with intraorganizational crowdsourcing IOC, yet the mechanisms of IOC production remain an underresearched topic. Drawing on a 2-mode ERGM, we examine structural mechanisms and individual-level factors that shape the network structure of idea generation and selection yielded by an IOC idea challenge in a global IT corporation. Results show a Matthew effect leading to 1 highly centralized employee participation around a few "superactive" employees who engage with many ideas and 2 highly centralized idea popularity with a few ideas attracting most employee attention. We find support for shared affiliations among employee-idea clusters in the first half of the participation, which is, however, less likely in the second half. We also find support for geographic homophily. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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