Research Article
Unveiling the Dynamics of Extrinsic Motivations in Shaping Future Experts’ Contributions to Developer Q&A Communities
Table 1
Primary extrinsic motivations for potential experts.
| Regulation style | Motivations | Related literature |
| External regulation | Badge | [8, 23] | Introjected regulation | Reputation | [8, 23–25] | Privilege (status) | [8, 24, 26] | Identified regulation | Learning | [8, 23, 25] | Integrated regulation | Reciprocity | [8, 27, 28] |
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