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Crowdsourcing – Chancen für den Mittelstand. Kollektive Intelligenz in F&E-Prozesse integrieren

2016 , Leimeister, Jan Marco , Blohm, Ivo , Rhyn, Marcel

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Deconstructing the Sharing Economy: On the relevance for IS research

2016-03-09 , Knote, Robin , Blohm, Ivo , Nissen, Volker , Stelzer, Dirk , StraĂźburger, Steffen , Fischer, Daniel

In the past few years, Sharing Economy (SE) has become increasingly popular mainly for consumer research. Past research focused on describing the phenomenon itself and its disrupting influences on current economic mechanisms. However, information systems (IS) research and scientific literature in general still lack a common understanding of SE and its underlying mechanisms. We therefore elaborate on this gap by conducting a literature review among contributions within IS scholarship that address SE in order to identify to what extent past IS research has covered the topic yet. We aimed to highlight interrelations to adjacent topics and illustrate potential research gaps. As a result, we identified the four perspectives on how the topic is addressed, namely business model, sharing service, sharing asset and exogenous influences. Furthermore, we identified the four principles of SE, which are multi-sided markets, crowdsourcing, trust and recommendation and consumption-based pricing. With this contribution, we aim to guide further investigation of the topic. Additionally, we aim to highlight potential research gaps, as we claim SE to become much more relevant for IS in near future.

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How to Manage Crowdsourcing Platforms Effectively?

2018-02-01 , Blohm, Ivo , Zogaj, Shkodran , Bretschneider, Ulrich , Leimeister, Jan Marco

To profit from crowdsourcing, organizations can engage in four different approaches: microtasking, information pooling, broadcast search, and open collaboration. This article presents 21 governance mechanisms that can help organizations manage their crowdsourcing platforms. It investigates the effectiveness of these governance mechanisms in 19 case studies and recommends specific configurations of these mechanisms for each of the four crowdsourcing approaches. Also, it offers guidance to organizations that host a crowdsourcing platform by providing recommendations for implementing governance mechanisms into their platforms and building up governance capabilities for crowdsourcing.

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Massive Open Online Courses

2014-04-01 , Wulf, Jochen , Blohm, Ivo , Leimeister, Jan Marco , Brenner, Walter

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Dienstleistungen von der Crowd: Crowdsourcing und Crowd Work

2015 , Leimeister, Jan Marco , Zogaj, Shkodran , Blohm, Ivo

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It's not about having Ideas - It's about making Ideas happen! Fostering Exploratory Innovation with the Intrapreneur Accelerator

2016-06-12 , Knote, Robin , Blohm, Ivo

Organizations usually strive for innovation to achieve economic growth. Thereby, incremental innovation of e.g., existing products is often the most attractive way because it is plannable to a certain extent and often reveals short-term success. However, many markets change due to new competitive structures caused by the rise of digital services, which facilitates market entries of new companies. For an incumbent firm trying to cope with these competitors, exploitation of existing ideas and technologies (i.e., incremental innovation) is not enough. Although these firms usually pay minor attention to it, they need to additionally explore how to establish disruptive innovation that complements or even changes their traditional business model before competitors do. In this contribution, we present a novel structure to foster exploratory innovation within incumbent organizations by unleashing the innovative potential of intrapreneurs as peripheral innovators: the Intrapreneur Accelerator. We consider this novel structure a service system for supporting intrapreneurs to develop and implement extraordinary ideas and thus fostering exploratory innovation for the organization. Using a design science approach, we will further present our methodology and our preliminary results, since we have already conducted two of four design iterations.

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Potentiale und Hindernisse von Crowdsourcing für Unternehmensentwicklung und Geschäftsmodellinnovation – Ein methodischer Ansatz zur Transformation von Organisationen

2017-10 , Christ, Oliver , Czarniecki, Michael , Scherer, Lukas , Blohm, Ivo

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Promoting the Quality of User Generated Ideas in Online Innovation Communities: A Knowledge Collaboration Perspective

2016-12-11 , Ye, Jonathan , Blohm, Ivo , Breschneider, Ulrich , Goswami, Suparna , Leimeister, Jan Marco , Krcmar, Helmut

Enabled by Internet-based technologies, users are increasingly participating and collaborating in idea generation in online innovation communities. However, with the limited understanding of the phenomenon, few studies have investigated what determines the quality of ideas. This study aims at addressing the knowledge gap. We find that idea experimentation effort, i.e., the effort associated with creating the idea, and idea review, i.e., comments by other users, influence idea quality. Further, idea recombination, i.e. peer users participating in wiki-based edits, have a positive influence on idea Quality, in case idea experimentation effort was low, and a negative influence in case of high idea experimentation effort. These results contribute to idea generation, knowledge collaboration, and user generated content literature by investigating the mechanisms through which collaboration influences the quality of the collaborative outcome (i.e., idea quality) in online contexts for the first time. Advice for organizations running online innovation communities is provided.

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Enhancing Absorptive Capacity in Open Innovation Communities

2014 , Blohm, Ivo , Kahl, Vincent , Leimeister, Jan Marco , Krcmar, Helmut , Leimeister, Jan Marco

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Rate or Trade? Identifying Winning Ideas in Open Idea Sourcing

2016-03 , Blohm, Ivo , Riedl, Christoph , FĂĽller, Johann , Leimeister, Jan Marco

Information technology (IT) has created new patterns of digitally-mediated collaboration that allow open sourcing of ideas for new products and services. These novel sociotechnical arrangements afford finely-grained manipulation of how tasks can be represented and have changed the way organizations ideate. In this paper, we investigate differences in behavioral decision-making resulting from IT-based support of open idea evaluation. We report results from a randomized experiment of 120 participants comparing IT-based decision-making support using a rating scale (representing a judgment task) and a preference market (representing a choice task). We find that the rating scale-based task invokes significantly higher perceived ease of use than the preference market-based task and that perceived ease of use mediates the effect of the task representation treatment on the users’ decision quality. Furthermore, we find that the understandability of ideas being evaluated, which we assess through the ideas’ readability, and the perception of the task’s variability moderate the strength of this mediation effect, which becomes stronger with increasing perceived task variability and decreasing understandability of the ideas. We contribute to the literature by explaining how perceptual differences of task representations for open idea evaluation affect the decision quality of users and translate into differences in mechanism accuracy. These results enhance our understanding of how crowdsourcing as a novel mode of value creation may effectively complement traditional work structures.