Individual Participation in Organizational Information Commons.

Individual Participation in Organizational

This research extended earlier public goods research on individual incentives to use an organizational information commons that was based in Marwell and Oliver’s (1993) collective action model. A revised theoretical model that incorporated team-level social infl uence and technology-specifi c competence was proposed. The model was tested using online survey data from 150 individuals in 13 work ...

A Test of the Individual Action Model for Organizational Information Commons

This research elaborated and empirically tested the individual action component of the collective action model as applied to individual contributions to organizational information commons. The model extended prior theory and research by making six elaborations on the classic collective action model based on unique characteristics of information goods compared to material collective goods. The s...

Information commons: future of academic libraries

Background and Aim: This paper seeks to explore the concepts of the information commons (IC). The paper provides a look at the models and characteristics of the IC. A number of projects of the IC are presented. We will discuss the situation of an existing traditional library. It makes recommendations for converting an existing library space into an IC. A number of Challenges of implementation o...

Information System Success: Individual and Organizational Determinants

The Information Commons Gazetteer

Advances in location aware computing and the convergence of geographic and textual information systems will require a comprehensive, extensible, information rich framework called the Information Commons Gazetteer, that can be freely disseminated to small devices in a modular fashion. This paper describes the infrastructure and datasets used to create such a resource. The Gazetteer makes use of ...