Corporate wiki users: results of a survey

By Ann Majchrzak, Christian Wagner, Dave Yates. WikiSym '06, 2006

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Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications

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Cooperation and quality in wikipedia (2007, result): “Other characteristics such asfactual accuracy [13, 12, 10], credibility [6], revert times [31], and formality of language [11] have been used to assess small samples of Wikipedia s articles and in some cases compare them to articles of traditional encyclopedias.”
Enterprise Social Media: Definition, History, and Prospects for the Study of Social Technologies in Organizations (2013, background): “Majchrzak et al. (2006) surveyed managers at 168 different companies that had implemented internal wikis, ﬁnding that corporate wikis improved work processes, and collaboration and knowledge reuse, but had little impact on creation of new business opportunities.”
Enabling Customer-Centricity Using Wikis and the Wiki Way (2006, methodology): “Although wikis are used for many other tasks than software projects [27], the similarities of the tenets between the wiki way and open source communities suggest that the scholarly literature on open source communities might provide some guidance in understanding how higher levels of constructive…”
The Shoemaker's Children: Using Wikis for Information Systems Teaching, Research, and Publication (2009, background): “My research on wikis, funded by the Society for Information Management, with Chris Wagner and Dave Yates (Majchrzak et al. 2006; Wagner and Majchrzak 2007) indicates that theories of cognitive coping (Beaudry and Pinnsonault 2005), elaboration likelihood (Sussman and Segal 2003), adaptive…”
Introduction to the Special Issue with Best Papers from BPM 2008 Workshops (2010, neutral): “This, however, presumes a high motivation of the participants [5], which is not always assured.”
A systemic and cognitive view on collaborative knowledge building with wikis (2008, background): “ Majchrzak et al. (2006) , examining users of a corporate wiki, found as well that the mere adding of information can be observed very often.”
Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association (2013, positive): “Majchrzak, Wagner, and Yates (2006) conducted a survey of 168 corporate wiki users to investigate if wikis are sustainable in organizations, what benefi ts the tool might provide, and if there were different types of content contributors.”