How to work a crowd: Developing crowd capital through crowdsourcing

Business Horizons

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 77-85

  Prpić, John ^a   Shukla, Prashant P ^b   Kietzmann, Jan H ^a   McCarthy, Ian P ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crowd capability; Crowd capital; Crowds; Crowdsourcing; Knowledge resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920606937     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2014.09.005     Document Type: Article

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