Published on in Vol 19, No 12 (2017): December

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/9082, first published .
Understanding a Nonlinear Causal Relationship Between Rewards and Physicians’ Contributions  in Online Health Care Communities: Longitudinal Study

Understanding a Nonlinear Causal Relationship Between Rewards and Physicians’ Contributions in Online Health Care Communities: Longitudinal Study

Understanding a Nonlinear Causal Relationship Between Rewards and Physicians’ Contributions in Online Health Care Communities: Longitudinal Study

Jying-Nan Wang   1 * , PhD ;   Ya-Ling Chiu   1 * , PhD ;   Haiyan Yu   1, 2, 3 * , PhD ;   Yuan-Teng Hsu   4 * , PhD

1 Key Laboratory of Electronic Commerce and Logistics, School of Economics and Management, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China

2 Health Big Data Research Institute, Big Data Research Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

3 Department of Statistics, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States

4 Research Center of Finance, Shanghai Business School, Shanghai, China

*all authors contributed equally

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