In addition, we need to enrich network models with insights from innovation and behavioral theory which highlight that the nature of the good – whether it is a rival good or not – and the heterogeneity of the resources of the individuals within the net-work – as well as the individual’s tendency towards cooperation is a critical variable in OC. Further, a purely network theoretical perspective is not sufficient to identify roles in OC and to explain and predict their effect on cooperative behavior on OC. We need to complement a ‘global’ network perspective, with a local-individual behavioral perspective, as role making implies that individuals en-act roles in the moment. Thus, it is the local individual activities that characterize enacted roles in OC. Such roles emerge in re-sponse to tension fluctuations in OC. For example, Kane et al.[22]identified roles-including flitterer, idea champion, and defender – that participants in a Wikipedia article use for collaborating on an article. The flitterer is a participant who comes to the community, places an idea, and then leaves[22]. In OC such self-enacted roles may be critical to drive contribution. However, it requires novel data-driven research and pattern-oriented mining to identify these roles and generalize whether they drive collaboration. It requires the analysis of local behavioral patterns and activities ‘in the mo-ment’, in a particular context and in relation to subpopulations.