Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan.
Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo, 102-0083, Japan.
Sci Rep. 2021 Jun 8;11(1):11588. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-90974-1.
Cooperation (i.e., co-creation) has become the principal way of carrying out creative activities in modern society. In co-creation, different participants can play two completely different roles based on two different behaviours: some participants are the originators who generate initial contents, while others are the revisors who provide revisions or coordination. In this study, we investigated different participants' roles (i.e., the originator vs. the revisor) in co-creation and how these roles affected the final cooperation-group outcome. By using cooperation networks to represent cooperative relationships among participants, we found that peripheral members (i.e., those in the periphery of the cooperation networks) and core members (i.e., those in the centre of the cooperation networks) played the roles of originators and revisors, respectively, mainly affecting the quantity versus the quality of their creative outcomes. These results were robust across the three different datasets and the three different indicators defining core and peripheral members. Previous studies have considered cooperation behaviours to be homogeneous, ignoring that different participants may play different roles in co-creation. This study discusses patterns of cooperation among participants based on a model in which different roles in co-creation are considered. Thus, this research advances the understanding of how co-creation occurs in networks.
合作（即共同创造）已成为现代社会开展创造性活动的主要方式。在共同创造中，不同的参与者可以根据两种不同的行为扮演两种完全不同的角色：一些参与者是创作者，他们生成初始内容，而另一些参与者是修订者，他们提供修订或协调。在这项研究中，我们研究了共同创造中不同参与者的角色（即创作者与修订者），以及这些角色如何影响最终的合作群体成果。通过使用合作网络来表示参与者之间的合作关系，我们发现边缘成员（即合作网络边缘的成员）和核心成员（即合作网络中心的成员）分别扮演创作者和修订者的角色，主要影响他们的创意成果的数量和质量。这些结果在三个不同的数据集和三个不同的定义核心和边缘成员的指标中都是稳健的。以前的研究认为合作行为是同质的，忽略了不同的参与者在共同创造中可能扮演不同的角色。本研究基于考虑共同创造中不同角色的模型，讨论了参与者之间的合作模式。因此，这项研究增进了对网络中共同创造如何发生的理解。
