How crowdsourcing improves prediction of market-oriented outcomes

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 4168-4176

  Lang, Mark ^a   Bharadwaj, Neeraj ^b   Di Benedetto, C Anthony ^c  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Forecasting; Market information processing; Market prediction; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962425624     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.03.020     Document Type: Article

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