Distant search, narrow attention: How crowding alters organizations' filtering of suggestions in crowdsourcing

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 856-880

  Piezunka, Henning ^a   Dahlander, Linus ^b  

^a INSEAD   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 84939824962     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amj.2012.0458     Document Type: Article

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