Despite the widespread and increased usage of idea contests and, within these,
gamification elements, scarce data exist on the effects of utilizing gamification elements to …

Idea competitions are a highly important tool for integrating insiders and outsiders in the
idea generation and evaluation activities of organizations. Previous research on motives for …

Current gamification research usually examines several game design elements at the same
time, which makes it difficult to distinguish how and to what extent individual game design …

Research on the effectiveness of gamification has proliferated over the last few years, but
the underlying motivational mechanisms have only recently become object of empirical …

Open innovation contests are a popular way to tap into the creativity of customers. Many
firms host multiple, successive open innovation contests in response to different, creative …

Gamification became a well-established technique by implicating game design elements
into applications, activities, and services. We investigate the impact of the amount of game …

Abstract Purpose of Research In the gamification literature, the causal effects of multiple
game elements are typically confounded, but in this study, we tested the causal effects of the …

Gamification is the use of game design elements in non-game contexts to encourage a
desired type of behavior. In recent years gamification systems have been applied in …

In many innovation settings, ideas are generated over time and managers face a decision
about if and how to provide in‐process feedback to the idea generators about the quality of …

Open innovation contests that display all submitted ideas to participants are a popular way
for firms to generate ideas. In such contest-based ideation, the authors show that seeing …