Crowdsourcing as a Model for Problem Solving : An Introduction and Cases
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...The second refers to the fact that the crowd has to solve problems [8,9,4,33,34,37], in many cases for companies....
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...Nor is there an agreed definition; instead there are a variety of definitions, which look at crowdsourcing from differing points of view including problem resolution [8, 9] or innovation applied to business process improvement [10, 4]....
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...Moreover, the theoretical knowledge base is still not solid, being developed with works like Brabham’s, in which he defines crowdsourcing [4] and creates a typology of it [5]; Vukovic’s, in which she makes a general overview of various characteristics of crowdsourcing including the kind of crowd that can participate, the incentive schema, the different variants of crowdsourcing initiatives [2], or the requirements of a crowdsourcing initiative [6]; or Geiger’s [7], in which he develops a taxonomy using different examples....
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...Others indicate that it is a production model [9,44] with an example being Threadless, while there are others who identify it as a business model or practice [15,35] or a strategic model, relating crowdsourcing directly to the business area [4]....
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...An interesting recent scenario of inaccurate supervision occurs with crowdsourcing [12], a popular paradigm to outsource work to individuals....
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...The hypertextual nature of the web mimics the very way we think as humans (Bush, 1945), so it should come as no surprise that humans should see themselves in the medium as actors, creators, innovators, as implicated in the information flow rather than witnesses to it....
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...Successes in distributed intelligence – or intelligence amplification (Bush, 1945; Smith, 1994), or crowd wisdom, or innovation communities (von Hippel, 1988, 2005), or whatever the nomenclature – existed prior to the arrival of the web, as Surowiecki (2004) notes throughout his book....
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