Enabled by Internet-based technologies, users are increasingly participating and collaborating in idea generation in online innovation communities. Beyond increasing the quantity of ideas contributed by users, firms are looking to obtain innovation ideas of better quality. However, with the...

Enabled by Internet-based technologies, users are increasingly participating and collaborating in idea generation in online innovation communities. Beyond increasing the quantity of ideas contributed by users, firms are looking to obtain innovation ideas of better quality. However, with the...

Researching the design and usage of complex socio-technical systems as for instancevirtual communities is especially challenging. Such research subject can often hardly bereduced for meaningful study. Virtual communities, consisting of a (social) context thatinteracts with information...