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A Test of the Individual Action Model for Organizational Information Commons Janet Fulk Annenberg School for Communication and Marshall School of Business University of Southern California 3502 Watt Way Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281, USA Phone: 213-740-0941; Fax: 213-740-0021; fulk@ Rebecca Heino McDonough School of Business Georgetown University Old North Building Washington, D.C. 20057 rheino@ Andrew J. Flanagin Department of Communication University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA Phone: 805-893-7892 Fax: 805-893-7102; flanagin@ Peter R. Monge Annenberg School for Communication and Marshall School of Business University of Southern California 3502 Watt Way Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281, USA Phone: 213-740-0921; Fax: 213-740-0021; monge@ Francois Bar Annenberg School for Communication University of Southern California 3502 Watt Way Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281, USA Phone: 213-740-3951; Fax: 213-740-0021; fbar@ April 26, 2004 FINAL VERSION: IN PRESS, ORGANIZATION SCIENCE Running head: Information Commons Note: This research was made possible by grants from the National Science Foundation (SBR9422537, SBR 9602055, and IIS-9980109) and a collaborative research partnership with the Stanford Computer Industry Project (SCIP). Special thanks are extended to our SCIP partners, Emily Murase, Christian Sandvig, Li Gong, Leslie Sept, and Guilliaume Vambenepe from Stanford University and Noshir Contractor from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. We also extend our appreciation to Anita Elberse (currently Assistant Professor at Harvard University), Wan-Ying Lin, Kijung Kim, and Yu Yuan, graduate students at the Annenberg School for Communication, USC, for assistance with data processing and analysis.  A Test of the Individual Action Model for Organizational Information Commons Abstract This research elaborated and empirically tested the individual action component of the collective action model as applied to individual contrib