Options
Jan Marco Leimeister
Title
Prof. Dr.
Last Name
Leimeister
First name
Jan Marco
Email
janmarco.leimeister@unisg.ch
Phone
+41 71 224 3330
Now showing
1 - 7 of 7
-
PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE)Volume: 58Issue: 4
Scopus© Citations 76 -
PublicationThe Rise of Crowd Aggregators - How Individual Workers Restructure Their Own Crowd( 2017-02-12)
;Durward, DavidCrowd work has emerged as a new form of digital gainful employment whose nature is still a black box. In this paper, we focus on the crowd workers – a perspective that has been largely neglected by research. We report results from crowd worker interviews on two different platforms. Our findings illustrate that crowd aggregators as new players restructure the nature of crowd work sustainably with different effects on the behavior as well as the existing relationships of crowd workers. We contribute to prior research by developing a theoretical framework based on value chain and work aggregation theories which are applicable in this new form of digital labor. For practice, our results provide initial insights that need to be taken into account as part of the ongoing discussion on fair and decent conditions in crowd work.Type: conference paper -
PublicationIs There PAPA in Crowd Work? : A Literature Review on Ethical Dimensions in CrowdsourcingThe phenomenon of crowdsourcing has emerged as a new pattern of digitally mediated collaboration. This novel socio-technical arrangement changes the organization of work as well as its general nature and takes place in information systems (IS) in which humans face many threats to their dignity. For this reason, the importance of ethical issues within this new form of employment arises. Hence, in this paper we focus on the ethical issues in crowd work – a perspective that has been largely neglected by current crowdsourcing research. We analyze recent crowdsourcing literature and extract ethical issues by following the PAPA (privacy, accuracy, property and accessibility of information) concept, a well-established approach in IS. The review focuses on the individual perspective of crowdworkers, which addresses their working conditions and benefits. Although, the literature review exhibits that there are PAPA dimensions in crowdsourcing, only few focus on the crowdworkers as individuals. Our findings contribute to further research in crowdsourcing by introducing an ethical framework and give practical insight into how to design sustainable and ethical crowd work.Type: conference paper
Scopus© Citations 16 -
PublicationRags to Riches - How signaling behaviour causes a power shift in crowdsourcing marketsCrowdsourcing has emerged as new form of digital work organization. This novel socio-technical ar-rangement changes the organization of work as well as its general nature. In this paper, we focus on the crowdworkers – a perspective that has been largely neglected by crowdsourcing research. We re-port results from crowdworker-interviews on two different platforms. Our research shows that quality signals of crowdworkers increase the bargaining power towards their principals, i.e. the crowdsourcers. As a result, the crowdworkers can reach a turning point of critical bargaining power at which the distribution of power shifts in their favor. We contribute to the literature by unraveling signaling behavior as mechanism influencing bargaining power and thus success in crowdsourcing. Beyond, we develop a theoretical model that indicates a shift in bargaining power over time and im-proves our understanding of crowdsourcing as novel way of organizing digital work. For practice, our results provide guidelines for crowdworkers how to improve their position in bargaining in relation to the crowdsourcer.Type: conference paper
-
PublicationSystematisierung und Analyse von Crowdsourcing-Anbietern und Crowd-Work-Projekten(Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 2016-05)
;Zogaj, Shkodran ;Durward, DavidType: bookVolume: Band 324 -
PublicationType: book sectionVolume: 1. Aufl.
-
PublicationCrowdsourcing und Crowd Work - Neue Formen digitaler Arbeit(Verlag aw&I Wissenschaft und Praxis, 2015)
;Zogaj, Shkodran ;Durward, DavidBullinger, Angelika C.Type: book section