Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business

By Brian A Vander Schee. Human Resource Management International Digest, 2010

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications

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Crowdfunding: Tapping the Right Crowd (2014, methodology): “The concept of crowdfunding is rooted in the broader concept of crowdsourcing, which refers to using the crowd to obtain ideas, feedback, and solutions to develop corporate activities (Bayus, 2013; Howe, 2008; Kleemann et al., 2008).”
Digital prosumption labour on social media in the context of the capitalist regime of time (2014, background): “The crowdsourcing of paid labour to unpaid digital labour does not, as claimed by management gurus and consultants, bring about a ‘trend toward greater democratization in commerce’ (Howe, 2008; 14), but rather the intensification of exploitation.”
Strategies for reward-based crowdfunding campaigns (2016, background): “The term originally comes from Howe (2006a, 2006b, 2008), who defined crowdsourcing in an online article in 2006: “The act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open…”
Public sector innovation—From theory to measurement (2013, background): “Notions such as crowdsourcing (Howe, 2008) and co-creation (Bason, 2010) or wiki-government (Noveck, 2009) enabled by interactive technologies allow citizens to become active and engaged in policy formulation and societal production.”
Questioning Big Data: Crowdsourcing crisis data towards an inclusive humanitarian response (2016, methodology): “This is often done through crowdsourcing, a method of data creation originally defined as ‘the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent [. . .] and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call’ (Howe, 2008: 99).”
Task Design, Motivation, and Participation in Crowdsourcing Contests (2011, background): “Co-creation through crowdsourcing in particular is gaining attention as the newest wave of electronic commerce (EC) practice enabled by the Internet and Web 2.0 sites [35, 49, 64, 76, 78].”
An Open Government Maturity Model for social media-based public engagement (2012, neutral): “(Howe, 2008).”