Using Amazon Mechanical Turk and other compensated crowdsourcing sites

Business Horizons

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 391-400

  Schmidt, Gordon B ^a   Jettinghoff, William M ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon Mechanical Turk; Compensated crowdsourcing; Crowdsourcing; E lancing; Online communities; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962316879     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2016.02.004     Document Type: Article

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