TY - GEN
T1 - Promoting the quality of user generated ideas in online innovation communities
T2 - 2016 International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2016
AU - Ye, Hua
AU - Blohm, Ivo
AU - Bretschneider, Ulrich
AU - Goswami, Suparna
AU - Leimeister, Jan Marco
AU - Krcmar, Helmut
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Enabled by Internet-based technologies, users are increasingly participating and collaborating in idea generation in online innovation communities. However, with the limited understanding of the phenomenon, few studies have investigated what determines the quality of ideas. This study aims at addressing the knowledge gap. We find that idea experimentation effort, i.e., the effort associated with creating the idea, and idea review, i.e., comments by other users, directly influence idea quality. Further, idea recombination, i.e. peer users participating in wiki-based edits, have a positive influence on idea quality in case idea experimentation effort was low, and a negative influence in case of high initial idea experimentation effort. These results contribute to idea generation, knowledge collaboration, and user generated content literature by investigating the mechanisms through which collaboration influences the quality of the collaborative outcome (i.e., idea quality) in online contexts for the first time. Advice for organizations running online innovation communities is also provided.
AB - Enabled by Internet-based technologies, users are increasingly participating and collaborating in idea generation in online innovation communities. However, with the limited understanding of the phenomenon, few studies have investigated what determines the quality of ideas. This study aims at addressing the knowledge gap. We find that idea experimentation effort, i.e., the effort associated with creating the idea, and idea review, i.e., comments by other users, directly influence idea quality. Further, idea recombination, i.e. peer users participating in wiki-based edits, have a positive influence on idea quality in case idea experimentation effort was low, and a negative influence in case of high initial idea experimentation effort. These results contribute to idea generation, knowledge collaboration, and user generated content literature by investigating the mechanisms through which collaboration influences the quality of the collaborative outcome (i.e., idea quality) in online contexts for the first time. Advice for organizations running online innovation communities is also provided.
KW - Idea experimentation
KW - Idea quality
KW - Idea recombination
KW - Idea review
KW - Knowledge collaboration theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019473517&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85019473517
T3 - 2016 International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2016
BT - 2016 International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2016
PB - Association for Information Systems
Y2 - 11 December 2016 through 14 December 2016
ER -