In a crowdsourcing contest a requester posts a task (eg logo design, programming task) on a
platform and announces a monetary reward that he is willing to pay for a winning solution …

Economic growth in many countries is increasingly driven by successful startups that
operate as online platforms. These success stories have motivated us to define and classify …

Research on the financial performance outcomes of open innovation has been equivocal
and often relies on cross-sectional data and problematic assumptions about the role of the …

When organizations crowdsource ideas, they select only a small share of the ideas that
contributors submit for implementation. If a contributor submits an idea to an organization for …

While external search allows organizations to source diverse ideas from people outside the
organization, it often generates a narrow set of nondiverse ideas. We theorize that this stems …

Recent open innovation literature indicates increasing concern about the quality of
crowdsourced ideas. Building on a framework of creativity capability, rooted in behavioral …

This special issue implores us to address sustainability from the lens of emerging
economies and the role that innovation can play in this context. We posit that, for sustainable …

Abstract Research Summary Theories of crowdsourced search suggest that firms should
limit the search space from which solutions to the problem may be drawn by constraining the …

A crowdsourcing contest connects solution seekers to online users who compete with each
other to solve the seeker's problem by generating innovative ideas. Knowledge sharing that …

Though leader agreeableness has been associated with follower ratings of leader
effectiveness, the relationship between leader agreeableness and team task performance is …