Methods and Measures for the Analysis of Corporate Wikis

In the paper Methods and Measures for the Analysis of Corporate Wikis, that you can find here The authors Steffen Blaschke and Klaus Stein, try to understand the rules that allow a community (in this particular case a corporate wiki) to organize itself.

This is a part of introduction that explain the case of study:

In the following, we present a single in-depth case study based on our unrestricted access to a corporate wiki, supplementary material such as organizational charts and annual reports, and interviews with users of the wiki in question. With the aid of this case study, we demonstrate a general methodology for the analysis of corporate wikis. Our research approach rests on the broader framework of social systems theory (Luhmann, 1984, 1995), particularly its understanding of organizations as networks of communication (Bakken and Hernes, 2003; Luhmann, 2000; Seidl and Becker, 2006).