Collective Action in Communication and Information-Based Public Goods: Interorganizational Computer-Supported Collaborative Work, II

本研究通过考察通信公共产品和信息公共产品的连通性和公共性，扩展了传统公共产品理论。这项研究是对通信和基于信息的公共产品的纵向检查，具体地说，是一个大型的跨组织计算机支持的协作工作系统。从理论上讲，提供通信和信息公共产品所涉及的集体行动类型具有对集体产品的通信形式特别重要的两个属性：连通性和共同性。综合了贡献博弈的经济学理论和马威尔和奥利弗提出的社会学框架，提供了一个既考虑个体参与者的理性动机，又考虑他们的社会约束和知情行为的模型。这项研究旨在检验将集体行动理论、沟通和信息系统以及协作工作过程和效果联系起来的多变量、动态假说。

This research extends traditional public goods theory by examining the connectivity and communality properties of communication and information-based public goods. The study is a longitudinal examination of a communication and information-based public good, specifically, a large interorganizational computer-supported collaborative work system. The type of collective action involved in providing communication and information public goods is theorized to possess two properties that are uniquely important to communication forms of collective goods: connectivity and communality. A synthesis of the economic theories of contribution games and the sociological framework offered by Marwell and Oliver provides a model that considers both individual actors' rational motivations as well as their socially constrained and informed behavior. The research is designed to test multivariate, dynamic hypotheses that link collective action theory, communication and information systems, and collaborative work processes and effects.