Investigating the antecedents of organizational task crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is increasingly recognized as a potential approach to organizational task solving. However, few studies have explored and statistically tested the antecedents underlying the crowdsourcing intentions of organizations. This paper examines the antecedents of firms’ crowdsourcing intention...

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Published inInformation & management Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 98 - 110
Main Authors Ye, Hua (Jonathan), Kankanhalli, Atreyi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.01.2015
Elsevier Sequoia S.A
Subjects
Cost analysis
Cost reduction
Crowdsourcing
Intention to crowdsource
Perceptions
Resource-based view
TaskCN
Transaction cost theory
Transaction costs
Validation studies
Crowdsourcing
TaskCN
Intention to crowdsource
Resource-based view
Transaction cost theory
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Summary:Crowdsourcing is increasingly recognized as a potential approach to organizational task solving. However, few studies have explored and statistically tested the antecedents underlying the crowdsourcing intentions of organizations. This paper examines the antecedents of firms’ crowdsourcing intentions based on transaction cost theory and the resource-based view and validates these antecedents using survey data from 161 organizations. The results indicated that the perceived benefits of cost reduction, brand visibility, and access to specialized skills positively affect firms’ intention to crowdsource, while codification costs and proposal evaluation costs negatively influence firms’ crowdsourcing intentions, both directly and indirectly, by diminishing perceptions of cost reduction.
ISSN:0378-7206
1872-7530
DOI:10.1016/j.im.2014.10.007