Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the development of crowdsourcing
literature. Design/methodology/approach–This study is a comprehensive review of 346 …

As academic and practitioner studies on crowdsourcing have been building up since 2006,
the subject itself has progressively gained in importance within the broad field of …

Context: Crowdsourcing, or tapping into the power of the crowd for problem solving, has
gained ever-increasing attraction since it was first introduced. Crowdsourcing has been …

Examples of the value that can be created and captured through crowdsourcing go back to
at least 1714 when the UK used crowdsourcing to solve the Longitude Problem, obtaining a …

Crowdsourcing is one of the emerging Web 2.0 based phenomenon and has attracted great
attention from both practitioners and scholars over the years. It can facilitate the connectivity …

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 …

Interest in and enthusiasm for crowdsourcing is growing tremendously. But should
organizations contemplating the use of crowdsourcing view it as simply another means of …

Digitization and the Internet have empowered firms to tap into the creative potential,
knowledge and broad-based experience of a huge crowd of contributors. For instance, the …

Crowdsourcing is a problem-solving and task realization model that is being increasingly
used. Thanks to the possibility of harnessing the collective intelligence from the Internet; …

Crowdsourcing, simply referring to the act of outsourcing a task to the crowd, is one of the
most important trends revolutionizing the internet and the mobile market at present. This …