This document summarizes a study on the types of contributors to listed clean tech and real estate companies. It finds that these companies rely on both employees and external contributors coordinated implicitly through distributing work or explicitly through coordination to introduce their company and products. The document also notes some similarities to Wikipedia contributors but with more limited socializing and potential trust issues.

1. Prepared for Open Source & Production Communautaire session (I & E)
A Study on contributors of
listed companies
Khan Reaz | Xin Hu

2. {Types of companies we studied}
Clean Tech Real Estate
Source: http://goo.gl/wp0SZu

3. {Nature of their Businesses}
✤ A producer of high-performance, premium algae-based products
✤ Has offices in California, USA and in Perth, Western Australia

4. {Nature of their Businesses}
✤ Buy and Sales homes in Bend, OR region
✤ Help potential sellers to display property on its website and catalog

5. { Scope of contribution}
✤ Modular/Fixed formulae
✤ Meme spreading on

6. {Types of contributors}
✤ Employees
✤ External contributors

7. {Types of Coordination}
Implicit Coordination
✤ Different distribution of works
✤ Few users did a large proportion of the work in the article
✤ During the first few months of the article’s life.
✤ Less requirement for coordination.

8. {Types of Coordination}
Explicit Coordination
✤ Editors can explicitly coordinate with each other
✤ Ensure correctness of data
✤ To introduce their company, products& technology
✤ To attract customers& investors

9. {Gamification of Contributors}

10. {Conclusion}
✤ Similarity with Wikipedia contributors
✤ Limited socializing scope
✤ Some dust on Trust!

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