Outsourcing labour to the cloud

International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 294-313

  Corney, Jonathan R ^a   Torres Sánchez, Carmen ^a   Jagadeesan, A Prasanna ^a   Regli, William C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon's MTurk; Cloud computing; Creation; Crowd types; Crowdsourcing; Evaluation; Geometric reasoning; Manufacturing; Microoutsourcing; Open innovation; Organisation; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952664532     PISSN: 17408822     EISSN: 17408830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISD.2009.033083     Document Type: Article

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