A Review on the Applications of Crowdsourcing in Human Pathology

The advent of the digital pathology has introduced new avenues of diagnostic medicine. Among them, crowdsourcing has attracted researchers' attention in the recent years, allowing them to engage thousands of untrained individuals in research and diagnosis. While there exist several articles in this regard, prior works have not collectively documented them. We, therefore, aim to review the applications of crowdsourcing in human pathology in a semi-systematic manner. We firstly, introduce a novel method to do a systematic search of the literature. Utilizing this method, we, then, collect hundreds of articles and screen them against a pre-defined set of criteria. Furthermore, we crowdsource part of the screening process, to examine another potential application of crowdsourcing. Finally, we review the selected articles and characterize the prior uses of crowdsourcing in pathology

Attention to ideas! Exploring idea survival in internal crowdsourcing

Purpose \u2013 This paper analyzes how the distribution and structure of employees\u2019 attention influence idea survival in an organizational internal crowdsourcing session. Design/methodology/approach \u2013 Data from an online internal crowdsourcing session carried out within a multinational company with headquarters in Sweden were used to explore how idea attention influenced idea survival. Findings \u2013 Our findings indicate that the positive relationship between attention allocation and idea survival is mediated by idea appreciation, i.e. positive comments and suggestions that employees provide in response to ideas. In addition, we find that competition for attention negatively moderates the relationship between idea attention and positive comments. Finally, our results indicate that ideas are more likely to survive if they are submitted earlier in the crowdsourcing process and when the elapsed time since previously posted ideas in the session is longer. Practical implications \u2013 This study provides organizers of internal crowdsourcing sessions with new insights about factors influencing idea survival and about potential systematic biases in idea selection due to timing and competition between ideas. Originality/value \u2013 This paper contributes to the literature highlighting the relevance of attention-based theory in the context of crowd-based creativity and innovation management

Exploring the Process of Web-based Crowdsourcing Innovation

Since the concepts of customer innovation (2002) and “crowdsourcing”(2006) were introduced, researchers have focused their attention onthe phenomenon of crowdsourcing innovation. Relevant researchincludesthe crowd’s characteristics,the crowd’sapplicability in different phases of developing innovations,andinstrumental aspects of web-based crowdinnovation. However, there has been no research on how requestersleverage the crowdto effectivelygenerateinnovations, especially via informationsystems. In thisresearch, to explore the value of information systemsin leveraging crowdsourcing innovationunderdifferent conditions,I conductedand compared twocasestudies.After analyzing(I) aninnovative idea collection software and (II) a StarCraft –related crowdsourcing project,four stages in the web-based crowdsourcing campaign wereidentified: (1) identifying, (2) requesting, (3) evaluatingand(4)retainingthe crowd

A Co-Citation Bibliometric Analysis of Crowdsourcing Research

Crowdsourcing has gained increasing attention from scholars in a broad range of fields such as computer science, engineering, information system, business, and economics. However, few crowdsourcing studies are conducted from the bibliometric perspective. This paper conducts document co-citation, author co-citation, journal co-citation, and keyword co-word analysis in the crowdsourcing research field by using CiteSpace and Web of Science TM Core Collection database, aiming to identify highly cited articles and journals and influential authors in the crowdsourcing research field during the time span from 2008 to 2016 and to find out current hot research topics and future directions in the crowdsourcing research field

Crowdsourcing & Marketing: A Relationship in the Making

Crowdsourcing seems to have come of age since Jeff Howe christened it in 2006 and the writing on the wall is clear. As more and more companies are trying to jump on the crowdsourcing bandwagon, crowdsourcing as a marketing strategy is cementing its place in the fiercely competitive business environment and it’s leading the crowd of strategies which have come to the fore in the recent years. The business corridors are buzzing with this ever evolving phenomenon, which no more seems like another buzz word around. As this phenomenon is gaining currency across boundaries, the academic research around this topic has also gained lot of attention. As a result this paper will draw attention toward the marketer’s perspective about crowdsourcing, as they are the one who are the harbinger of the future growth of crowdsourcing. This paper will highlight the level of awareness of crowdsourcing among the marketing managers, their perspective about its use and impact on various marketing strategies. In addition to this, their perspective on digital divide is considered to be discussed, as digital divide could play a spoilsport in the relationship between crowdsourcing and marketing. Most often it is said that if you want to do something different then don’t follow the crowd, first time it seems it is good to follow the crowd