Factors affecting participation of solvers in crowdsourcing: An empirical study from China

Electronic Markets

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 73-82

  Shao, Bingjia ^a   Shi, Lei ^a   Xu, Bo ^b   Liu, Li ^c  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SICHUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Competition situation; Contest attributes; Crowdsourcing; Innovation contest; Solvers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864846291     PISSN: 10196781     EISSN: 14228890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12525-012-0093-3     Document Type: Article

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