Digital platforms have grown rapidly, overcoming many market inefficiencies by facilitating direct interactions between consumers and producers, eliminating brokers, agents, and distributors. Consumers now have a vast selection and producers can now efficiently reach huge markets. But the...

Crowdsourcing innovation aims to solicit a large volume of diverse ideas but inherently increases demands on resources to assess those contributions. As a result, organizations may now crowdsource the assessment of the ideas as well. However, crowd assessment of crowd generated ideas may diverge...