Crowdsourcing has gained considerable traction over the past decade and has emerged as
a powerful tool in the innovation process of organizations. Given its growing significance in …

Solver participation plays a critical role in the sustained development of knowledge-
intensive crowdsourcing (KI-C) systems. Extant theory has highlighted numerous factors that …

A crowdsourcing contest connects solution seekers to online users who compete with each
other to solve the seeker's problem by generating innovative ideas. Knowledge sharing that …

Purpose Crowdworkers' sustained participation is critical to the success and sustainability of
the online crowdsourcing community. However, this issue has not received adequate …

Crowdsourcing has attracted significant attention from organizations seeking to capture new
ideas and solutions, finance new projects, and obtain market feedback about product …

Gamification can be an effective mechanism of engaging individual users (ie solvers) in task
solving on competitive crowdsourcing platforms. However, past literature lacks a nuanced …

Firms often use crowdsourcing contests to develop marketing ideas and solutions. Despite
the prevalence—and unique aspects—of marketing ideation crowdsourcing contests …

With the ubiquity of the internet and social media platforms, open innovation (OI)
opportunities now extend to individuals with creative ideas and interests in innovation …

Companies face the challenges of attracting solvers and motivating them to dedicate their
time and effort to develop solutions in crowdsourcing contests. Previous research …

Contests have long existed to source ideas and solutions. The emergence of crowdsourcing
contest platforms greatly reduces the costs and broadens the reach of running contests by …