This paper offers a review of the theory published on crowdsourcing tools from de point of view of the concept's adoption by researchers. Crowdsourcing is a concept that includes many of the online collaboration activities performed by crowds in response to an open call. The paper offers a...

Argentina's G20 presidency has emphasized the need to improve soil management and sustainably increase agricultural productivity to achieve an inclusive and resilient food future. While increased agricultural productivity can improve economic welfare and help address food security problems by...

From 15-21 July 2018, the World Congress of Sociology, organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA), took place in Toronto, Canada. Here, TA research continued to feature prominently at ISA, this time focusing on conceptual approaches to the relation of technology and work. The...

Die persönlichen Daten der Verbraucher stellen einen Wert dar, der sich auch pekuniär bestimmen lässt. Verschiedene Rabattprogramme wie beispielsweise Payback bieten den Verbrauchern auch einen Gegenwert. Ob dessen Höhe angemessen ist, wird bisher nicht hinterfragt. Zudem gibt es Probleme...

This paper investigates which socio-economic and demographic factors influence the demand for digital access to financial services. For this purpose, customer data from all public savings banks in Germany are linked with socio-economic and demographic data at regional level. As a result,...

Major trends in the automotive industry are reconfiguring digital mobility business models. From a comprehensive, combined Dynamic Capabilities and Ecosystems approach, this study characterizes the digital mobility business models linked to sustainability, connectivity, and Autonomous Vehicles...

Drawing on the literature on organizational change, technological change, and inertia, this paper explores how the moment that companies choose to initiate a technological change relative to other companies from the same regional and industrial context influences the company's performance. In...

Are consumers accepting AI-based products? What are the socio-demographics influencing the adoption of these products? This study tests the potential users' social-demographic characteristics that influence the relationship between innovation and AI-based products. The latter are robots (e.g....

This study answers the question on whether areas of agglomeration or high industry specialization constitute supportive prone-to-innovation environments for the generation of radical innovation. By drawing on the CIS distinction between incremental vs radical innovation, we disentangle the...