Does collaboration among participants lead to better ideas in IT-based idea competitions? An empirical investigation

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Blohm, Ivo ^a   Bretschneider, Ulrich ^a   Leimeister, Jan Marco ^b   Krcmar, Helmut ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION PROCESS; DESIGN ELEMENTS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; FIELD STUDIES; IDEA GENERATION; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; OPEN INNOVATION; SPECIFIC STRENGTH;

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INNOVATION; RESEARCH; SALES;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION;

EID: 77951753378     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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