Crowdsourcing: A new way of employing non-employees?

Business Horizons

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 377-388

  Ford, Robert C ^a   Richard, Brendan ^a   Ciuchta, Michael P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Human resource management; Innovation; Labor pool; Managerial challenges; Outsourcing; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937634886     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2015.03.003     Document Type: Article

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