Effect of crowdsourcing work characteristics on perceived work effort in competitive crowdsourcing markets

Ying Liu is a lecturer at the School of Economics and Management, Changsha University of Science and Technology, China. She conducted research in crowdsourcing, management information system, social media and online community. Her research has appeared in Internet Research.

Yongmei Liu is a professor at the Business School of Central South University, China. Professor Liu's research interests include information management, E-commerce, online health community and crowdsourcing. Her research has appeared in Journal of Business Ethics, Internet Research, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Computers in Human Behavior and others.

Bo Sophia Xiao is an associate professor of Information Technology Management at the Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She has been appointed to the endowed Shidler College Distinguished Associate Professorship. Her primary research interests include human–computer interaction, dark side of information technology and health information systems. She has published multiple papers in premier Information Systems journals including Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), and Decision Support Systems (DSS). Dr. Xiao has served (or is currently serving) as an Associate Editor of MISQ, Associate Editor of Internet Research, Editorial Board Member of the JAIS, as well as Guest Co-Editor or Guest Associate Editor of special issues in many leading Information Systems journals.