@inproceedings{4a3613004ea14de1b55bcb773c18ef22,
title = "Serial integration, real innovation: Roles of diverse knowledge and communicative participation in crowdsourcing",
abstract = "Despite a burgeoning public and scholarly interest on open innovation and crowdsourcing, how to enable members of online temporary crowd to maintain knowledge integration and innovation remains underexplored. This study seeks to understand the ways in which online crowd members collectively generate more innovative and serial integrative solutions to crowdsourced open innovation challenges. Analyzing 3,200 unique posts generated by 486 participants of 21 organization-sponsored online crowdsourcing innovation challenges, this research demonstrates that crowd members contribute more innovative solutions when being exposed to explicitly shared diverse knowledge, and that crowd members' communicative participation acts as a catalyst for the production of both innovation and serial knowledge integration. Findings suggest that managers who seek to generate knowledge integration and innovation should endeavor to implement systems that afford high-level communicative participation, as well as encourage crowd members to make their diverse knowledge explicit while minimizing their cognitive load in knowledge sharing.",
author = "Yao Sun and Ann Majchrzak and Arvind Malhotra",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.; 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2021 ; Conference date: 04-01-2021 Through 08-01-2021",
year = "2021",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "4921--4929",
editor = "Bui, {Tung X.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2021",
address = "United States",
}