Understanding Voluntary Knowledge Provision and Content Contribution Through a Social-Media-Based Prediction Market: A Field Experiment

Liangfei Qiu
Liangfei Qiu
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Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
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Subodha Kumar
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Subodha Kumar
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Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611

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Subodha Kumar

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Subodha Kumar

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Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122

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Published Online:18 Apr 2017https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2016.0679

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