The increasing popularity of open innovation approaches has led to the rise of various open innovation communities on the Internet which might contain several thousand user-generated ideas. However, a company's absorptive capacity is limited regarding such an amount of ideas so that there is a...

Given the rise of Internet, consumers increasingly engage in co-creating products and services. Whereas most co-creation research deals with various aspects of generating user-generated content, this study addresses designing ratings scales for evaluating such content. In detail, we analyze...

The increasing popularity of open innovation approaches has lead to the rise of various innovation platforms on the Internet which might contain 10.000s user-generated ideas. However, a company’s absorptive capacity is limited regarding such an amount of ideas so that there is a strong need...

Electronic services delivered over the Internet are gaining importance in the business world. Thisarea has seen an increase in scientific interest over the past years under the labels “Internet ofServices” and Web-service ecosystems. The paper develops a conceptual framework of actors...

In diesem Beitrag werden zwei verschiedene Skalen zur Durchführung von Teilnehmerbewertungenin Ideenwettbewerben auf ihre Validität untersucht. Dafürwerden diese mit einer unabhängigen, validierten Expertenbewertung verglichen.Auf Basis von Kreuztabellen wird gezeigt, dass eine einfache...