Examining the role of intrinsic and extrinsic cues from service requirement narratives in web-based time banking participation decisions.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Time banking, known as "Community/Neighborhood Pension," instantiates a form of co-creation that can provide a new solution to fulfil the unmet social service needs of community members with idle resources, which is a feasible solution to alleviate pension pressure. The sustainable operation of time banks relies on the co-creation and active participation of community members. Therefore, in this study, we investigate the motivation of members to participate in web-based time banks from a service requirement narrative perspective.

Methods

We collected data of 21969 service requirement projects from publicly available information on the website of Nansha Timebank (nstimebank.com, a web-based time bank platform in China). Using the data, we built a model to assess

SUBMITTER: Jiao H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11671481 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature