Boudreau, Kevin J.; Lacetera, Nicola; Lakhani, Karim R. - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 5, pp. 843-863
Contests are a historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide evidence of two coexisting and opposing forces...
