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Jan Marco Leimeister
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Prof. Dr.
Last Name
Leimeister
First name
Jan Marco
Email
janmarco.leimeister@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 3330
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PublicationManaging crowdsourced software testing: a case study based insight on the challenges of a crowdsourcing intermediaryCrowdsourcing has gained much attention in practice over the last years. Numerous companies have drawn on this concept for performing different tasks and value creation activities. Nevertheless, despite its popularity, there is still comparatively little well-founded knowledge on crowdsourcing, particularly with regard to crowdsourcing intermediaries. Crowdsourcing intermediaries play a key role in crowdsourcing initiatives as they assure the connection between the crowdsourcing companies and the crowd. However, the issue of how crowdsourcing intermediaries manage crowdsourcing initiatives and the associated challenges has not been addresses by research yet. We address these issues by conducting a case study with a German start-up crowdsourcing intermediary called testCloud that offers software testing services for companies intending to partly or fully outsource their testing activities to a certain crowd. The case study shows that testCloud faces three main challenges, these are: managing the process, managing the crowd and managing the technology. For each dimension, we outline mechanisms that testCloud applies for facing the challenges associated with crowdsourcing projects.Type: journal articleJournal: Journal of business economics : JBEVolume: 84Issue: 3
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PublicationLeveraging Crowdsourcing: Activation-Supporting Components for IT-Based Ideas Competition(Sharpe, 2009-06-01)
;Huber, Michael ;Bretschneider, UlrichKrcmar, HelmutIdeas competitions appear to be a promising tool for crowdsourcing and open innovation processes, especially for business-to-business software companies. Active participation of potential lead users is the key to success. Yet a look at existing ideas competitions in the software field leads to the conclusion that many information technology (IT)-based ideas competitions fail to meet requirements upon which active participation is established. The paper describes how activation-enabling functionalities can be systematically designed and implemented in an IT-based ideas competition for enterprise resource planning software. We proceeded to evaluate the outcomes of these design measures and found that participation can be supported using a two-step model. The components of the model support incentives and motives of users. Incentives and motives of the users then support the process of activation and consequently participation throughout the ideas competition. This contributes to the successful implementation and maintenance of the ideas competition, thereby providing support for the development of promising innovative ideas. The paper concludes with a discussion of further activation-supporting components yet to be implemented and points to rich possibilities for future research in these areas.Type: journal articleJournal: Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)Volume: 26Issue: 1Scopus© Citations 624 -
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PublicationTowards Open Innovation In Universities : Fostering the Inside-Out-Process Using Ideas Competitions(European Academy of Management, 2012-06-06)
;Zogaj, S. ;Kipp, P. ;Ebel, P. ;Bretschneider, U.Type: conference paperVolume: Paper 18604 -
PublicationAccelerating customer integration into innovation processes using Pico-Jobs(Internat. Soc. for Professional Innovation Management, 2010-06-08)
;Fähling, Jens ;Krcmar, Helmut ;Fischer, JanHuizingh, K. R. E.Type: conference paper