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Building Status in an Online Community
- Author(s)
- Markus Georg Reitzig, Inna Smirnova, Olav Sorenson
- Abstract
We argue that the actions for which actors receive recognition vary as they move up the hierarchy. When actors first enter a community, the community rewards them for their easier-to-evaluate contributions to the community. Eventually, however, as these actors rise in status, further increases in stature come increasingly from engaging in actions that are more difficult to evaluate or even impossible to judge. These dynamics produce a positive feedback loop, in which those who have already been accorded some stature garner even greater status through quality-ambiguous actions. We present evidence from Stack Overflow, an online community, and from two online experiments consistent with these expected patterns.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Accounting, Innovation and Strategy
- External organisation(s)
- University of Michigan, University of California, Los Angeles
- Journal
- Organization Science
- Volume
- 33
- Pages
- 2519-2540
- No. of pages
- 22
- ISSN
- 1047-7039
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1559
- Publication date
- 2021
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 502052 Business administration
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/building-status-in-an-online-community(7f877ab8-361a-454b-9ae6-7510247d4734).html