Crowdsourcing As a Solution to Distant Search

By Allan Afuah, Christopher L. Tucci. 2012

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Management Science and Operations Research

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Leveraging External Sources of Innovation: A Review of Research on Open Innovation (2014, neutral): “In some cases, the firm is explicitly present and collaborating in organizing or producing the innovation for its own financial benefit, as with cocreation (Prahalad and Ramaswamy, 2004) or crowdsourcing (Afuah and Tucci, 2012; Jeppesen and Lakhani, 2010; Poetz and Schreier, 2012).”
Ethical norms and issues in crowdsourcing practices: A Habermasian analysis (2018, background): “The analysis is typically focused on the role and meaning of crowdsourcing for the focal organization (Afuah and Tucci 2012; Jeppesen and Lakhani 2010; Schlagwein and Bjørn-Andersen 2014) or for the industry in which it operates (Aitamurto and Lewis 2013; Orlikowski and Scott 2015; Scott and Orlikow”
The Adoption of Open Innovation in Large Firms (2018, neutral): “This is somewhat surprising given the enthusiastic discussion about crowds and contests among open innovation scholars (see, for example, Afuah and Tucci 2012; Boudreau and Lakhani 2013).”
How open is innovation? A retrospective and ideas forward (2021, background): “There are internal aspects that prevent or limit how we can use open innovation (Alexy et al., 2009).”
A Fad or a Phenomenon?: The Adoption of Open Innovation Practices in Large Firms (2014, background): “2 Crowdsourcing describes the act of outsourcing a task in the problemsolving process to an undefi ned crowd, in the form of an open call, rather than to a designated agent, such as an organization, informal or formal team, or individual (Afuah and Tucci 2012).”
Cui Bono? The Selective Revealing of Knowledge and Its Implications for Innovative Activity (2013, background): “For example, Afuah and Tucci (2012) describe how problem-revealing in the form of crowdsourcing may allow firms to drastically expand the limits of local search.”
Internal Social Capital and the Attraction of Early Contributions in Crowdfunding (2015, background): “Initial contributions have focused on defining and distinguishing crowdfunding from partially different phenomena (Hildebrand, Puri, & Rocholl, 2013), such as crowdsourcing (Afuah & Tucci, 2012), online charity donations, and peer-to-peer lending (Zhang & Liu, 2012).”
Crowdsourcing: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research (2018, neutral): “Third, seekers must make sure that the innovation problem can be understood clearly, by providing the solvers with enough information (Afuah and Tucci, 2012), while carefully avoiding unnecessary constraints that can restrict their creativity (Sieg, Wallin and Von Krogh, 2010) and simultaneously…”
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).”
Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control (2020, methodology): “For example, in crowdsourcing initiatives such as Topcoder and Kaggle, managers used algorithmic restricting to limit and curate sub-missions for quality and relevance when they made open calls on the platforms (Afuah & Tucci, 2012; Lakhani, 2016).”
Using Theory Elaboration to Make Theoretical Advancements (2017, background): “…and entrepreneurship include interactions in online social networks (e.g., Ollier-Malaterre, Rothbard, & Berg, 2013), crowdsourcing as a mechanism for management search (e.g., Afuah & Tucci, 2012), or online marketplaces as a setting for entrepreneurial interactions (e.g., Aguinis & Lawal, 2012).”
Unpaid Crowd Complementors: The Platform Network Effect Mirage (2015, neutral): “As these examples illustrate, complementors in these cases are often individuals (hobbyists, students, and others working online), frequently referred to as a “crowd,” rather than traditional enterprises (Afuah and Tucci, 2012; Bayus, 2013; Howe, 2006).”
Open innovation: current status and research opportunities (2017, neutral): “In parallel to OI, research has exploded on how firms crowdsource their innovations and other val-ue-creation activities from large pools of external individuals (e.g. Afuah & Tucci, 2012; Poetz & Schreier, 2012).”