Crowdsourcing: A primer and research framework

Creating and Capturing Value through Crowdsourcing

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 11-38

  Afuah, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

(internal crowdsourcing); Crowds; Crowdsourcing; Information technology; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051612795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198816225.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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