Abstract The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been a devastating crisis
affecting the physical, social, and financial well-being of people the world over. Unlike …

The ability of open crowds to produce useful and novel solutions is of significant research
and practical interest. Much of the existing research has assumed that crowd participants …

Public procurement of innovation is a key policy instrument for improving the quality of public
services and achieving wider benefits for society. Recently, innovation contests have re …

It is increasingly common for firms to gather ideas and solutions through the use of
crowdsourcing. However, limited focus is placed on understanding how firms can manage …

With multiple advances in innovative technologies and crowdfunding platforms for
businesses, the process of crowdsourcing is associated with some security issues that are …

Firms increasingly implement internal crowdsourcing to access the creative inputs of their
wider crowd of distributed employees. Although internal crowdsourcing initiatives have …

Management communication encompasses a wide range of practices that define modern
organizations. Those practices are, in many respects, constituted, formed and contextualized …

Crowdsourcing—a form of collaboration across organizational boundaries—provides
access to knowledge beyond an organization's local knowledge base. There are four basic …

Online communities provide vibrant forums for knowledge sharing and are increasingly
being used by individual users and firms to source knowledge and create and capture value …

In this chapter, we argue that crowdsourcing can be a promising tool for addressing societal
challenges by harnessing the knowledge and creativity of the crowds. Comparing the design …