Salience bias in crowdsourcing contests

Information Systems Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 401-418

  Lee, Ho Cheung Brian ^a   Ba, Sulin ^b   Li, Xinxin ^b   Stallaert, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Competition effect; Crowdsourcing; Open innovation; Parallel path effect; Salience bias

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; SURVEYS;

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; COMPETITION EFFECTS; OPEN INNOVATION; PARALLEL PATH; SALIENCE BIAS;

CROWDSOURCING;

EID: 85048536100     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2018.0775     Document Type: Article

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