Enabled by Internet-based technologies, users are increasingly participating and collaborating in idea generation in online innovation communities. Beyond increasing the quantity of ideas contributed by users, firms are looking to obtain innovation ideas of better quality. However, with the...

The last decade has witnessed the proliferation of crowdsourcing in various academic domains including strategic management, computer science, or IS research. Numerous companies have drawn on this concept and leveraged the wisdom of crowds for various purposes. However, not all crowdsourcing...

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...

Research has shown that idea competitions are apromising approach for integrating customers intoopen innovation activities. Furthermore research onopen innovation shows that most innovations are theresult of intensive collaboration processes in whichmany individuals contribute according to...