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Jan Marco Leimeister
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Prof. Dr.
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Leimeister
First name
Jan Marco
Email
janmarco.leimeister@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 3330
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PublicationOne for All? Managing External and Internal Crowds through a Single Platform - A Case Study( 2017)
;Mrass, VolkmarWhereas crowdsourcing as a topic has often been addressed in recent literature, web-based crowdworking platforms that manage the interface between crowdsourcers and crowdworkers have not received much attention so far. Furthermore, most of these platforms focus on either the management of external or internal crowds; platforms that handle both groups are rare. This paper investigates such a provider: the German company Across Systems. It uses a hybrid model, offering an individual “mini crowdworking platform” that enables the simultaneous government of external and internal crowds as well as a more traditional marketplace crowdworking platform (crossMarket) where supply and demand meet. Using a single-case study approach, the main contribution of this paper is to shed light on a model that has the potential to change the current crowdworking platform market. We show that managing both external and internal crowds on one platform can increase the acceptance, quality and speed of task completion.Type: conference paper -
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PublicationBarriers of SMEs in Adopting Crowdsourcing and -working and Strategies to Overcome Them(Kassel University Press, 2023)
;Anna Hupe ;Ulrich Bretschneider ;Kirsten Lange ;Tim Trostmann ;Lena StubbemannRobert RefflinghausDespite its undisputable benefits for firms, crowdsourcing and ‐working is currently rarely applied in small and medium sized enterprises (SME). Up to now extant literature provides only an incomplete picture of the barriers that hinder SMEs from adopting crowdsourcing and ‐working. Because of these incomplete insights on this phenomenon there is also a great deal of uncertainty on how to overcome these barriers. In the scope of an interview series with 15 SMEs we explore a range of different barriers. In a second round of interviews with crowdsourcing and ‐working experts (Delphi study) we reveal strategies that may help SMEs to overcome these barriers. The findings from these two studies not only expand the so far incomplete body of knowledge but also provide practical references for SMEs to overcome the barriers and to adopt crowdsourcing and ‐working for their value creation activities.