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Whom Should Firms Attract to Open Innovation Platforms? The Role of Knowledge Diversity and Motivation

Karsten Frey, +2 more
- 01 Oct 2011 - 
- Vol. 44, Iss: 44, pp 397-420
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In this paper, the authors explore how the motivation and knowledge of individuals participating in innovation projects broadcast on the Internet affect their contribution performance and identify the most valuable contributors as those who combine high levels of intrinsic enjoyment in contributing with a cognitive base fed from diverse knowledge domains.
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This article is published in Long Range Planning.The article was published on 2011-10-01. It has received 277 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Open innovation & Crowdsourcing.

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Crowdsourcing: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the existing body of knowledge on crowdsourcing systematically through a penetrating review in which the strengths and weakness of this literature stream are presented clearly and then future avenues of research are set out.
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How to Work a Crowd: Developing Crowd Capital Through Crowdsourcing

TL;DR: This work formulates a crowdsourcing typology and shows how its four categories—crowd voting, micro-task, idea, and solution crowdsourcing—can help firms develop ‘crowd capital,’ an organizational-level resource harnessed from the crowd.
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How to work a crowd: Developing crowd capital through crowdsourcing

TL;DR: The term "crowd" was used almost exclusively in the context of people who self-organized around a common purpose, emotion, or experience as mentioned in this paper. But, today, firms often refer to crowds...
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How to engage customers in co-creation: customers’ motivations for collaborative innovation

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model is proposed to understand why customers participate voluntarily and freely in co-creation online activities, by testing a model which considers an integrated set of motivations for members to engage in collaborative innovation.
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Crowdsourcing ideas: Involving ordinary users in the ideation phase of new product development

TL;DR: This work uses a cross-sectional research design to analyse publicly available data from an open idea call, and reveals that ideators paying major attention to crowdsourced ideas of others, the idea popularity, as well as its potential innovativeness positively influence whether an idea for NPD is implemented by the crowdsourcing company.
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