Investigating the antecedents of organizational task crowdsourcing

Information and Management

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 98-110

  Ye, Hua Jonathan ^a   Kankanhalli, Atreyi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Intention to crowdsource; Resource based view; TaskCN; Transaction cost theory

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCE; CROWDSOURCING; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; TASKCN; TRANSACTION-COST THEORY;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 84919786076     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2014.10.007     Document Type: Article

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