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The Effects of the Externality of Public Goods on Doctor’s Private Benefit: Evidence from Online Health Community

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In order to explore the effects of the externality of public goods in the online healthcare domain, we investigate the relationship between the contributions to Q&A (public goods) and the private benefits of family doctors based on the theory of public goods and externality. We analyze a panel dataset of 1,323 doctors from an online healthcare community, and our results show that participation in public goods will significantly increase the private benefits of family doctors. Moreover, we also find that the physician’s ranking has a moderating effect on this relationship.

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  1. School of Management, eHealth Research Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

    Min Zhang, Tianshi Wu, Xitong Guo, Xiaoxiao Liu & Weiwei Sun

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  1. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

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  2. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Daniel Dajun Zeng

  3. Department of Management Information System, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

    Elena Karahanna

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Zhang, M., Wu, T., Guo, X., Liu, X., Sun, W. (2017). The Effects of the Externality of Public Goods on Doctor’s Private Benefit: Evidence from Online Health Community. In: Chen, H., Zeng, D., Karahanna, E., Bardhan, I. (eds) Smart Health. ICSH 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10347. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67964-8_14

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