When to Signal? The Contextual Conditions for Career-Motivated User Contributions in Online Collaboration Communities

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dc.contributor.authorLee, Jeongsik ”Jay”
dc.contributor.authorPark, Hyunwoo
dc.contributor.authorZaggl, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-24T19:01:44Z
dc.date.available2020-12-24T19:01:44Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-05
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the contextual conditions for users’ career concern as a motivational driver of contributions in online collaboration communities. On the data of user-level activities from a computer programming-related online Q&A community (Stack Overflow), merged with job-market data for software-developer, we find robust evidence of a positive association between individual users’ career concern and their contributions. More important, we find that this positive relationship is further strengthened through the contextual conditions: the number of vacancies in the job market, the expected salaries from these jobs, and the transparency in the flow of career-related information within the community. We contribute to the literature on motivation in online collaboration communities. Our study thus offers insight into how career concern can be effectively utilized to motivate contributors in these communities. Our findings also foreshadow a possible paradigm change by characterizing online collaboration communities as institutions of career concern and skill signaling.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2021.037
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-4-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/70648
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCollaboration in Online Communities: Information Processing and Decision Making
dc.subjectcareer concern
dc.subjectjob-market signaling
dc.subjectmotivation
dc.subjectonline collaboration
dc.subjectonline communities
dc.titleWhen to Signal? The Contextual Conditions for Career-Motivated User Contributions in Online Collaboration Communities
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