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Towards an information systems perspective and research agenda on crowdsourcing for innovation

  • Ann Majchrzak
  • , Arvind Malhorta

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Abstract

Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on open innovation by firms to keep pace with the growing intricacy of products and services and the ever changing needs of the markets. Much has been written about open innovation and its manifestation in the form of crowdsourcing. Unfortunately, most management research has taken the information system (IS) as a given. In this essay we contend that IS is not just an enabler but rather can be a shaper that optimizes open innovation in general and crowdsourcing in particular. This essay is intended to frame crowdsourcing for innovation in a manner that makes more apparent the issues that require research from an IS perspective. In doing so, we delineate the contributions that the IS field can make to the field of crowdsourcing.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)257-268
JournalJournal of Strategic Information Systems
Volume22
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Dec 2013

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