Innovation contests as a means to realize innovative product or service solutions are
growing in popularity among practitioners and researchers. An increasing number of …

Crowdsourcing has gained considerable traction over the past decade and has emerged as
a powerful tool in the innovation process of organizations. Given its growing significance in …

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 …

Organizations increasingly initiate Internet-based innovation-contest communities through
which individuals can interact and contribute to the innovation process. To successfully …

In collaborative crowdsourcing communities for open innovation, users generate and submit
ideas as idea co‐creators. Firms then select and implement valuable ideas for new product …

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 …

Collective creativity and innovation are key determinants of various important outcomes
ranging from competitiveness of an organization to GDP growth of a country. As a result, this …

Purpose–This paper aims to propose an extended model to examine these motivations. As
technology-led changes have revolutionized the marketplace, researchers and practitioners …

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 …