How much has my co-worker contributed? The impact of anonymity and feedback on social loafing in asynchronous virtual collaboration

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Highlights:

• We investigate how feedback about co-worker's performance and anonymity affect a team member's performance in an asynchronous idea generation task.

• Anonymity by itself does not affect group performance.

• Feedback information about co-worker's performance does not affect group performance.

• Significant social comparison is experienced by people who work with high-performing co-workers in identified settings.

摘要

•We investigate how feedback about co-worker's performance and anonymity affect a team member's performance in an asynchronous idea generation task.•Anonymity by itself does not affect group performance.•Feedback information about co-worker's performance does not affect group performance.•Significant social comparison is experienced by people who work with high-performing co-workers in identified settings.

论文关键词:Virtual collaboration,asynchronous collaboration, virtual team, social loafing, social comparison

论文评审过程:Available online 6 July 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2014.05.001