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Unleashing the Crowd: Collaborative Solutions to Wicked Business and Societal Problems

Ann Majchrzak

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: What is Crowdsourcing for Innovation?

Chapter 2. Our Research on Comparing Idea Sharing

SECTION II: HOW DO CROWDS INNOVATE?

Chapter 3. Practice #1: Minimally Committed Knowledge Baton Passers

Chapter 4: Practice #2: Crowds Offering a Variety of Types of Knowledge Are

More Innovative Than Crowds Suggesting More Ideas

Chapter 5: Practice #3: Amplify Creative Associations of Knowledge

Fragments

Chapter 6: Practice #4: Reconstructing Needs for Creative Associations

Chapter 7: Practice #5: Allowing the Crowd to Play Any Innovation-Enabling They Choose

Section III: WHAT'S NEXT: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS, AND MANAGERS

CHAPTER 8: Tying it All Together: A Theory of Collective Production of Innovation to Inspire Future Research

Chapter 9: Designing Technology Platforms for Collective Co-Proudction: Advice When Selecting Crowdsourcing Platforms

Chapter 10: Unleashing the Crowd: Overcoming the Managerial Challenges

Chapter 11: FINAL WORDS: WHAT'S THE FUTURE: Managing Organizations as Crowds Enabled by Super-Connectivity and Big Data

Book Details

  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publish Date: Nov 12nd, 2019
  • Pages: 302
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 2020 - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.70in - 1.03lb
  • EAN: 9783030255565
  • Categories: Production & Operations ManagementInformation ManagementManagement - General

About the Author

Ann Majchrzak is Chaired Professor of Business Administration and Digital Innovation at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, USA. She is an internationally-known scholar in the fields of management, organization science, and information systems, as well as publishing in top practitioner journals. This is her fourth book.

Arvind Malhotra is H. Allen Andrews Professor of Entrepreneurial Education and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He is an expert on innovation processes, inter-organizational knowledge management, and virtual teams having published in many top-tier academic and practice oriented journals.


Praise for this book

"This book is written in a unique, lucid, story-telling style that caters to both practitioners seeking tangible tactics for enhancing their use of the crowd and scholars seeking to understand the state of the crowdsourcing literature and the data and methods necessary to advance such research. ... The transformation sparked by this book will further ignite the imagination of practitioners and researchers of innovation alike as to the potential of the crowd." (Daniel Armanios and Huiyan Zhang, Administrative Science Quarterly, November 6, 2020)