...Hanieh Javadi Khasraghi; Isaac Vaghefi; Rudy Hirschheim Purpose The research study intends to gain a better understanding of members' behaviors in the context of crowdsourcing contests. The authors examined the key factors that can motivate or discourage contributing to a team and within...

...Philip Tin Yun Lee; Richard Wing Cheung Lui; Michael Chau; Bosco Hing Yan Tsin Purpose This study examines how contributors with different achievement goals participate under the influence of two common motivators/demotivators on crowdsourcing platforms, namely system design features and task...

...Wei Wu; Qianwen Yang; Xiang Gong; Robert M. Davison Purpose Crowdsourcing platforms have emerged as an innovative way to generate ideas and solving problems. However, promoting sustained participation among crowdworkers is an ongoing challenge for most crowdsourcing platform providers. Drawing...

...Xiaoxiao Shi; Richard Evans; Wei Pan; Wei Shan Purpose Crowdsourcing communities enable companies to post challenges that are completed by solvers (workers); their success depends on engagement, requiring both creativity and effort. This study explores solver engagement in online crowdsourcing...

... helps spread and diffuse the latest information (Amrit and Van Hillegersberg, 2010 ; Crowston et al., 2006 ; Fonti and Maoret, 2016 ; Rullani and Haefliger, 2013 ; Setia et al., 2012). Similar examples abound in the literature. Crowdsourcing Innovation crowds Contributor...