%0 Journal Article %J International Journal of Organizational Design and Engineering %D 2010 %T Developing a Conceptual Model of Virtual Organizations for Citizen Science %A Wiggins, Andrea %A Kevin Crowston %X

This paper develops an organization design-oriented conceptual model of scientific knowledge production through citizen science virtual organizations. Citizen science is a form of organization design for collaborative scientific research involving scientists and volunteers, for which Internet-based modes of participation enable massive virtual collaboration by thousands of members of the public. The conceptual model provides an example of a theory development process and discusses its application to an exploratory study. The paper contributes a multi-level process model for organizing investigation into the impact of design on this form of scientific knowledge production.

%B International Journal of Organizational Design and Engineering %V 1 %P 148-162 %8 9/2010 %U http://www.inderscience.com/filter.php?aid=35191 %N 1/2 %9 Research Note %R 10.1504/IJODE.2010.035191 %> https://citsci.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/WigginsCrowstonIJODE2010.pdf