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Helge Klapper

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1984

Publications

29

Citations

328

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

43

Publishing since 1984

Research summary
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Helge Klapper studies how organizations make decisions, search for knowledge, and structure authority and incentives, drawing heavily on examples from online communities like Wikipedia and decentralized digital organizations. His work examines topics such as peer evaluation, monitoring, group decision-making, and how openness or control affects firm performance. This research is aimed at understanding organizational design choices and their behavioral consequences, often using formal modeling and empirical data from online platforms.

Organizational decision-making and search behaviorAuthority, control, and monitoring in organizationsPeer evaluation and online knowledge communities (e.g., Wikipedia)Openness, competition, and firm strategyGroup decision-making and social influence

Publication output has been steady but modest over the past decade, generally averaging one to two outputs per year with occasional gaps, and recent years show continued activity at a similar pace.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.2/year recently
2017: 2 publications2172018: 2 publications2182019: 2 publications2192020: 1 publication202021: 2 publications221222023: 2 publications2232024: 1 publication242025: 2 publications2252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Academy of Management Proceedings×6
  • Strategic Management Journal×3
  • Organization Science×1
  • Contributions to management science×1
  • Academy of Management global proceedings×1
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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