What Do We Know About Task Characteristics of Crowdsourcing?

Item Type	Book Section
Abstract	Digitalization and the Internet changed our life. Many phenomena are responsible for this change. A relatively new one is crowdsourcing. Companies such as Amazon or Procter and Gambles use crowdsourcing successfully. The change will continue and we need to fully understand this subject to use the potential offered by this new phenomenon. This literature review summarizes and structures the crowdsourcing literature with focusing on the crowdsourcability of tasks. We analyzed the outsourcing literature to build a framework and adopted 7 perspectives, which were used to describe the outsourcability of tasks. The framework helps us to structure and analyze the crowdsourcing literature with focusing on the crowdsourcability of tasks. We found relevant literature regarding every perspective, but great research gaps were shown concerning these perspectives, leading to the assumption that the task characteristics of crowdsourcing are not sufficiently explored by the state-of-the-art literature. More research is needed to fully understand and use the potential of crowdsourcing.
Authors	Knop, Nicolas & Blohm, Ivo
Editors	Nissen, Volker; Stelzer, Dirk; Straßburger, Steffen & Fischer, Daniel
Research Team	Crowdsourcing, CCC, IWI6
Projects	Blohm, Prof. Dr. Ivo; Leimeister, Prof. Dr. Jan Marco; Haas, Philipp; Leicht, Niklas; Knop, M.A. Nicolas; Troll, Julia & Rhyn, Marcel (2013) CC Crowdsourcing [applied research project] Official URL
Language	English
Subjects	business studies information management
HSG Classification	contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area	SoM - Business Innovation
Date	2018
Publisher	Universitätsverlag Ilmenau
Place of Publication	Ilmenau
Volume	Bd. 1
Page Range	255-266
Title of Book	Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2016
Event Title	Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2016
Event Location	Illmenau
Event Dates	09.-11.03.2016
ISBN	978-3-86360-132-4
Depositing User	Prof. Dr. Ivo Blohm
Date Deposited	10 Jan 2017 15:53
Last Modified	20 Jul 2022 17:29
URI:	https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/250109

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Knop, Nicolas & Blohm, Ivo: What Do We Know About Task Characteristics of Crowdsourcing? In Nissen, Volker; Stelzer, Dirk; Straßburger, Steffen & Fischer, Daniel (ed.): Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2016. Ilmenau : Universitätsverlag Ilmenau, 2018, S. 255-266.

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