The Value of Crowdsourcing: Can Users Really Compete with Professionals in Generating New Product Ideas?

By Marion K. Poetz, Martin Schreier. 2012

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Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications, Management Science and Operations Research

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The Effectiveness of Customer Participation in New Product Development: A Meta-Analysis (2016, background): “, customers’ solution-related knowledge refers to customers’ input about potential ways to solve problems (Poetz and Schreier 2012).”
Leveraging External Sources of Innovation: A Review of Research on Open Innovation (2014, neutral): “This identification might take place inside the firm (Jeppesen and Lakhani, 2010; Poetz and Schreier, 2012), by an external intermediary (Nambisan and Sawhney, 2007), or even by the community of external contributors (Ebner et al.”
The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: Determinants of Success and Failure (2013, background): “Crowdfunding draws inspiration from concepts like micro-finance (Morduch, 1999) and crowd sourcing (Poetz & Schreier, 2012), but represents its own unique category of fundraising, facilitated by dozens of internet sites devoted to the topic.”
- in-Progress (2012, neutral): “Finally, a number of studies have reported both tangible and intangible benefits of crowdsourcing (Anthes, 2010; Poetz and Schreier, 2012).”
Market Failure in the Diffusion of Consumer-Developed Innovations: Patterns in Finland (2015, neutral): “The literature to date tentatively suggests that user innovators’ assessments of general value are valid (Morrison et al., 2000; Poetz and Schreier, 2012), but further research on this issue seems warranted.”
The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis (2016, neutral): “Crowdsourcing allows tapping into diverse, marginal and distant knowledge bases to provide more efficient solutions to a local problem (Jeppesen and Lakhani 2010; Afuah and Tucci 2012; Poetz and Schreier 2012).”
Stakeholder co-creation during the innovation process: Identifying capabilities for knowledge creation among multiple stakeholders (2016, background): “For example, leading car brands such as BMWengage thousands of consumers across the world to co-create innovative features in new cars (Poetz & Schreier, 2012).”
The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: An Exploratory Study (2014, background): “Defining crowdfunding Crowdfunding draws inspiration from concepts like micro-finance (Morduch, 1999) and crowdsourcing (Poetz and Schreier, 2012), but represents its own unique category of fundraising, facilitated by a growing number of internet sites devoted to the topic.”
Impacts of Hedonic and Utilitarian User Motives on the Innovativeness of User-Developed Solutions: Motives for User-Developed Solutions (2015, neutral): “Poetz and Schreier (2012) identified the same findings in a study of the quality of ideas for improved baby feeding products.”