Incentives and Problem Uncertainty in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis

By Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, Karim R. Lakhani. Management Sciences, 2011

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Organizing for Innovation in the Digitized World (2012, background): “Consequently , firms are drawing on novel forms of organizing, such as online communities (Faraj et al. 2011), open innovation (Boudreau 2010), and innovation challenges (Boudreau et al. 2011), to harness creativity outside of the organization.”
Peer production, the commons, and the future of the firm (2017, neutral): “(Boudreau et al., 2011).”
Signaling by early stage startups: US government research grants and venture capital funding (2018, methodology): “We provide support for contests and grand innovation challenges (Boudreau et al., 2011; Murray, Stern, Campbell and MacCormack, 2012) as increasingly popular methods to rapidly progress technology development.”
Grand Innovation Prizes: A theoretical, normative, and empirical evaluation (2012, background): “…(albeit difficult) problems that often require only limited time commitment (see Brunt et al., 2008) or involve matching or adapting existing solutions to problems - for example, many of those posted on InnoCentive, TopCoder and elsewhere (see Jeppesen and Lakhani, 2006; Boudreau et al., 2011).”
Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom? An Early Look at Large Numbers of Software App Developers and Patterns of Innovation (2012, background): “Given the regular flux of producers in and out of these markets, the “churn” of suppliers at the margin might itself be a source of useful innovation and novelty (cf., Baldwin and Clark 2000)— one that might potentially offset negative incentive effects (cf., Boudreau et al. 2011).”
Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award—“Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited” Ten Years Later (2015, background): “These anonymous communities are self-motivated, self-selected, and self-governed (Boudreau et al., 2011; Dahlander & Gann, 2010; von Krogh, Spaeth, & Lakhani, 2003).”
Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas over Time: An Analysis of the Dell IdeaStorm Community (2013, background): “…include descriptive case studies (e.g., Bullinger et al. 2010) as well as studies of the relationship between individual and contest characteristics and the number of ideators/solvers in a contest (Yang et al. 2009) or problem solving effectiveness (Jeppesen and Lakhani 2010, Boudreau et al. 2011).”
Evaluation on crowdsourcing research: Current status and future direction (2012, background): “Furthermore, it is worth noting that incentive issues not only rely on the motivation of participants, but also have great relevance with the nature of the problem crowdsourced (Boudreau et al. 2011), and the organizations ’ purposes and objectives.”