What facilitates effective online collaboration and innovation? Illustrate your answer with discussion of at least two of the nine examples from Module 2.

Online collaboration and innovation

What facilitates effective online collaboration and innovation? You should illustrate your answer with discussion of at least two of the nine examples from Module 2. You should also use one or more of the theories of online collaboration and innovat

Case studies to be used:
1.Arazy, Ofer, Morgan, Wayne and Patterson, Raymond, (2007). Wisdom of the Crowds: Decentralized Knowledge Construction in Wikipedia. 16th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies & Systems (WITS) Paper, December 8.

2.Abedin, B., & Babar, A. (2017). Institutional vs. Non-institutional use of Social Media during Emergency Response: A Case of Twitter in 2014 Australian Bush Fire. Information Systems Frontiers, 20(4), 729-740. doi: 10.1007/s10796-017-9789-4

Theories to be used:
1.Blau, Ina (2011). E-Collaboration Within, Between, and Without Institutions: Towards Better Functioning of Online Groups Through Networks. International Journal of e-Collaboration, 7(4) October-December.

2. Castells, M. (2007). Communications, Power and Counter-power in the Network Society. International Journal of Communications. 1, 238-366. http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/46