Overview
- Examines recent advances in crowdsourcing as it relates to innovation, development and management
- Explores different crowdsourcing applications in various sectors such as medicine, tourism, information and communication technology (ICT), and marketing
- Includes contributions from a variety of scholars, academics and professionals in the field from around the world
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book attempts to link some of the recent advances in crowdsourcing with advances in innovation and management. It contributes to the literature in several ways. First, it provides a global definition, insights and examples of this managerial perspective resulting in a theoretical framework. Second, it explores the relationship between crowdsourcing and technological innovation, the development of social networks and new behaviors of Internet users. Third, it explores different crowdsourcing applications in various sectors such as medicine, tourism, information and communication technology (ICT), and marketing. Fourth, it observes the ways in which crowdsourcing can improve production, finance, management and overall managerial performance.
Crowdsourcing, also known as “massive outsourcing” or “voluntary outsourcing,” is the act of taking a job or a specific task usually performed by an employee of a company or contractors, and outsourcing it to a large group ofpeople or a community (crowd or mass) via the Internet, through an open call. The term was coined by Jeff Howe in a 2006 issue of Wired magazine. It is being developed in different sciences (i.e., medicine, engineering, ICT, management) and is used in the most successful companies of the modern era (i.e., Apple, Facebook, Inditex, Starbucks). The developments in crowdsourcing has theoretical and practical implications, which will be explored in this book.
Including contributions from international academics, scholars and professionals within the field, this book provides a global, multidimensional perspective on crowdsourcing.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Crowdsourcing
Editors: Fernando J. Garrigos-Simon, Ignacio Gil-Pechuán, Sofia Estelles-Miguel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18341-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18340-4Published: 21 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36513-8Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18341-1Published: 08 May 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 183
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Entrepreneurship, IT in Business