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Crowdsourcing business models that last
Kohler, Thomas; Nickel, Marco - In: Journal of Business Strategy 38 (2017) 2, pp. 25-32
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss how to sustain crowdsourcing business models. Emerging companies are … organizations demonstrate initial success, sustaining a crowdsourcing business model is challenging. Design/methodology/approach The … study is based on a comparative case study of the prominent crowdsourcing communities Threadless and Quirky. Participatory …
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Explore the feasibility of adopting crowdsourcing for innovative problem solving
Lee, C.K.M.; Chan, CY; Ho, Sophie; Choy, KL; Ip, WH - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 115 (2015) 5, pp. 803-832
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the feasibility of adopting crowdsourcing for enhancing innovative … found that crowdsourcing projects with higher awards and recognition as extrinsic motivation is positively associated with … complement existing research studies on how task attributes influence the performance of existing crowdworkers in crowdsourcing …
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“Problem‐sourcing”: a re‐framing of open innovation for R&D organisations
Cummings, Stephen; Daellenbach, Urs; Davenport, Sally; … - In: Management Research Review 36 (2013) 10, pp. 955-974
Purpose – While the benefits of open innovation (OI) and crowdsourcing (CS) for solutions to R&D problems have been …
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Documenting the Brain Drain of “La Crème de la Crème”
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 229 (2009) 6, pp. 679-705
Summary Most of the recent literature on the effects of the brain drain on source countries consists of theoretical papers and cross-country empirical studies. In this paper we complement the literature through three case studies on very different regional and professional contexts: the African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014609244
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Extending the Case for a Beneficial Brain Drain
Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 231 (2011) 4, pp. 466-478
Summary Several destination countries still adopt general immigration policies, and are characterized by lower returns to education than the countries of origin of the migrants. These two stylized facts challenge the literature on the beneficial brain drain which demonstrates that migration can...
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A comparative study of reciprocity in international physician licensing
Pande, Vivek - In: International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare … 8 (2014) 3, pp. 265-283
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the international mobility of physicians by comparing the regulations governing the practice of foreign physicians in the USA and eight other countries. Design/methodology/approach – This is a comparative study of the regulations governing...
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Two new datasets on south-north migration by occupational category
Neubecker, Nina - In: International Journal of Manpower 35 (2014) 6, pp. 834-872
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to break down south-north migration along both the skill and the occupational dimension and thus to distinguish and compare several types of south-north migration and brain drain. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents south-north migration...
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The determinants of brain drain in developing countries
Lawan Ngoma, Abubakar; Wana Ismail, Normaz - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) 8, pp. 744-754
Purpose – Skilled migrant workers move relatively in unidirectional form (from developing to developed countries) in response to many factors. The purpose of this paper is to examine some factors that influence skilled migration to such preferred locations among skilled workers....
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Brain circulation to the UK?
Harvey, William - In: Journal of Management Development 31 (2012) 2, pp. 173-186
Purpose – This paper seeks to address two research questions: first, to what extent do highly skilled migrants intend to make personal business and financial investments in their home countries, and second, what factors influence them to invest in their home countries?...
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Sustainable city storytelling: cultural heritage as a resource for a greener and fairer urban development
Rivero Moreno, Luis D. - In: Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable … 10 (2020) 4, pp. 399-412
, far away from the traditional top-down official perspective. Crowdsourcing methods are very powerful for establishing a …
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