This article sheds light on the factors that motivate online communities to collectively enact work in firm-sponsored initiatives. We term the general approach to online distributed knowledge-based work: “e-collective work”. While the literature has focused in understanding motivation in...

Prior research shows that negative engagement is conceptually different from positive engagement, and necessitates further understanding and measurement instruments. This study reports a series of four studies leading to conceptualization, development, and validation of a negative actor...