Network Positions and Contributions to Online Public Goods: The Case of Chinese Wikipedia
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چکیده
XIAOQUAN (MICHAEL) ZHANG is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management in the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He holds a PhD in Management from MIT Sloan School of Management, an MSc in Management, a BE in Computer Science and a BA in English from Tsinghua University. His research interests are on issues related to creation, dissemination and processing of information in business and management contexts. His works study pricing of information goods, online word-of-mouth, online advertising, incentives of creation in open source and open content projects, and use of information in financial markets. His research has appeared in American Economic Review, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Marketing, Decision Support Systems, and Journal of Interactive Marketing. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Information Systems Research and is also on the editorial boards of Production and Operations Management and Electronic Commerce Research and Applications.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. of Management Information Systems
دوره 29 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012