Task Division for Team Success in Crowdsourcing Contests: Resource Allocation and Alignment Effects

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 8-39

  Dissanayake, Indika ^a   Zhang, Jie ^b   Gu, Bin ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

crowdsourcing; crowdsourcing contests; econometrics; intellectual capital; social capital; social network analysis; team competition; virtual teams

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ECONOMICS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; PERSONNEL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STATISTICS;

CROWDSOURCING PLATFORMS; ECONOMETRICS; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELING; SOCIAL CAPITALS; VIRTUAL TEAM; WISDOM OF THE CROWDS;

CROWDSOURCING;

EID: 84940562741     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: 1557928X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2015.1068604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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