Issues and opinion on structural equation modeling
MIS Quarterly
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Task difficulty, task variability and satisfaction with management support systems
Information and Management
Developing and Validating Trust Measures for e-Commerce: An Integrative Typology
Information Systems Research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
IT worker turnover: an empirical examination of intrinsic motivation
ACM SIGMIS Database
Sense of Virtual Community: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Validation
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Working for Free? Motivations for Participating in Open-Source Projects
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Electronic Commerce and Organizational Innovation: Aspects and Opportunities
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Crowdsourcing and knowledge sharing: strategic user behavior on taskcn
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
The Influence of On-Line Brand Community Characteristics on Community Commitment and Brand Loyalty
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Innovation Contests, Open Innovation, and Multiagent Problem Solving
Management Science
Introduction to the Special Section: Consumption, Influence, and Participation of Web Users
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Determinants of the Choice of Open Source Software License
Journal of Management Information Systems
Contrast and Assimilation Effects on Consumers' Trust in Internet Companies
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Crowdsourcing and all-pay auctions
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Leveraging Crowdsourcing: Activation-Supporting Components for IT-Based Ideas Competition
Journal of Management Information Systems
HICSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
How to Establish an Online Innovation Community? the Role of Users and Their Innovative Content
HICSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search
Organization Science
Co-Creation: Toward a Taxonomy and an Integrated Research Perspective
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
How do B2B companies motivate participation in online innovation?
Proceeding of the 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference
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Firms can seek innovative external ideas and solutions to business tasks by sponsoring co-creation activities such as crowdsourcing. To get optimal solutions from crowdsourcing contest participants, firms need to improve task design and motivate contest solvers' participation in the co-creation process. Based on the theory of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation as well as the theory of job design, we developed a research model to explain participation in crowdsourcing contests, as well as the effects of task attributes on intrinsic motivation. Subjective and objective data were collected from 283 contest solvers at two different time points. We found that intrinsic motivation was more important than extrinsic motivation in inducing participation. Contest autonomy, variety, and analyzability were positively associated with intrinsic motivation, whereas contest tacitness was negatively associated with intrinsic motivation. The findings suggest a balanced view of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation in order to encourage participation in crowdsourcing. We also suggest that crowdsourcing contest tasks should preferably be highly autonomous, explicitly specified, and less complex, as well as require a variety of skills.