Abstract Design science research strives to be practical and relevant. Yet few researchers
have examined the extent to which practitioners can meaningfully utilize theoretical …

Over the past 16 years, the concept of crowdsourcing has rapidly gained traction across
many research fields. While related debates focused mainly on its importance for business …

Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges facing society today, with
potentially detrimental sustainability impacts on individuals, organisations, and societies …

The role of information systems (IS) as representations of real-world systems is changing in
an increasingly digitalized world, suggesting that conceptual modeling is losing its …

As crowdsourced user-generated content becomes an important source of data for
organizations, a pressing question is how to ensure that data contributed by ordinary people …

Over the past two decades, openness (eg 'open'innovation,'open'education and
'open'strategy) has been of increasing interest for researchers and of increasing relevance …

The rapid proliferation of online content producing and sharing technologies resulted in an
explosion of user-generated content (UGC), which now extends to scientific data. Citizen …

Purpose Social media platforms are a pervasive technology that continues to define the
modern world. While social media has brought many benefits to society in terms of …

The digitalization of human society continues at a relentless rate. However, to develop
modern information technologies, the increasing complexity of the real-world must be …

This conceptual paper traces the origins and progress of Open Science and proposes its
generative coupling to Open Innovation in the contemporary socio‐political context; where …