When is crowdsourcing advantageous? - Organizing for succesful crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing reflects an innovative solution to the coming shortage of IT staff. It enables organizations to tap into the creativity, knowledge and distributed labor of millions of people and characterizes a new way of organizing human labor. This GFF project develops theoretical insights that explain when crowdsourcing is an effective way of creating value and how organizations can effectively organize and manage crowdsourcing.

Category

HSG-GFF

Project start

01.06.2013

Project end

31.10.2014

Status

done

Area

Team Blohm

Crowdsourcing reflects an innovative solution to the coming shortage of IT staff. It enables organizations to tap into the creativity, knowledge and distributed labor of millions of people and characterizes a new way of organizing human labor. This GFF project develops theoretical insights that explain when crowdsourcing is an effective way of creating value and how organizations can effectively organize and manage crowdsourcing.

Persons

Prof. Dr.

Ivo Blohm

Project manager
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