Wisdom of the crowd and capabilities of a few: internal success factors of crowdsourcing for innovation

Journal of Business Economics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 339-374

  Lüttgens, Dirk ^a   Pollok, Patrick ^a   Antons, David ^a   Piller, Frank ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barriers to innovation; Broadcast search; Open innovation; Promoter roles; Tournament based crowdsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937147149     PISSN: 00442372     EISSN: 18618928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11573-014-0723-7     Document Type: Article

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