The Role of Status Seeking in Online Communities: Giving the Gift of Experience

“…In comparison, organizational commitment theories relate participation with the sense of belonging (Lampe et al 2010). Using status seeking and self-presentation theories, Lampel and Bhalla (2007) identify altruism and reciprocity as key factors. In the particular case of the Internet forums, Moore and Serva (2007) find that the main motivations for participating are cooperation, altruism and belonging.…”

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Private provision of a public good: cooperation and altruism of internet forum users

Ros-Gálvez¹,

Rosa‐García

2015

Int J Commons

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Abstract:We ran an experiment with users of Internet forums. In a dictator game, we find that the level of altruism is positively related to the activity in the forum. In a public good game, there is no relation between cooperation in the game and contribution to the content of the forum. Subjects are not more altruistic with partners from the same forum but do cooperate more with them. These results suggest that the public good provided in Internet forums is mainly provided by a group of unconditional altruistic users, and that the sense of belonging supports the cooperation in that provision.Keywords: Altruism, belonging, cooperation, Internet forums, public good provision Acknowledgements: We are indebted to Hubert J. Kiss and Ismael RodriguezLara for their comments and suggestions. This paper has benefited from suggestions provided by participants at I IMEBESS at Oxford, SING10 at Krakow and a seminar at UCAM. We want to thank the three anonymous reviewers for their extemely useful feedback. Alfonso Rosa-Garcia thanks CICYT for its support through grant ECO2013-45698.

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“…This offers a wealth of possibilities for companies that want to involve users in their innovation processes. In these virtual communities, users both produce and consume information in a voluntary and democratic manner, which makes it possible for strangers to get aid in problem solving activities (Lampel and Bhalla, 2007). These communities also are shown to be of great value, as they produce products and services which can compete with manufactured products; hence, the communities not only exist, they also triumph (von Hippel, 2001).…”

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Exploring users motivation in innovation communities

Ståhlbröst

Bergvall-Kåreborn

2011

IJEIM

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A rapid growth of technologies supporting user interaction on the Internet, such as social networking sites and other virtual communities, can be seen today. These virtual communities have been shown to be of great value to companies that want to involve users in their innovation processes. However, in order to guide organisations on how to utilise their innovation intermediary communities, more knowledge is needed regarding who they are and their motivational drivers for participating in a community. The aim of this paper therefore is to explore who the users are and what motivates them to contribute to innovation processes in an innovation intermediary community. The main findings of our study indicate that users' motivation to participate is influenced by community type as well as technology adoption type. This study show that in innovation intermediary communities, one important motivational factor for users is learning.

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The Role of Status Seeking in Online Communities: Giving the Gift of Experience

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