Build an app and they will come? Lessons learnt from trialling the GetThereBus app in rural communities

Acknowledgements The research described here was supported by the award made by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub; award reference: EP/G066051/1.Peer reviewedPostprin

Sociological diagnostics of crowdsourcing technology in the practice of regional management

The article proposes a methodology for identifying and analyzing the technology of crowdsourcing, examines the main stages of the formation, and analyzes the implementation of crowdsourcing technology into the practice of regional managemen

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES: THE IMPLICATIONS OF UNIFIED THEORY OF ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN CROWD SOURCING LOGISTICS

Information communication technologies have added a tremendous amount of impetus to the concept of crowdsourcing and as a result organizations all over the world are able to find the solution to the most current and significant problems through the general public. In this study, the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) has been used to find user intention to use crowdsourcing applications and their acceptance of wearable devices for collaborative innovation and logistics performance. Data has been collected from China through survey method. Results have empirically supported the conceptual model. The implication of this study will enhance the crowdsourcing in logistics

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES: THE IMPLICATIONS OF UNIFIED THEORY OF ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN CROWD SOURCING LOGISTICS

Information communication technologies have added a tremendous amount of impetus to the concept of crowdsourcing and as a result organizations all over the world are able to find the solution to the most current and significant problems through the general public. In this study, the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) has been used to find user intention to use crowdsourcing applications and their acceptance of wearable devices for collaborative innovation and logistics performance. Data has been collected from China through survey method. Results have empirically supported the conceptual model. The implication of this study will enhance the crowdsourcing in logistics

Exploring Gender Effects on Peer Rating in Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing: A Case of Website Evaluation

Peer rating has be used by open innovation and crowdsourcing platforms to evaluate submissions and select winners because it not only represents a cheaper and more scalable way but also empowers and engages users. However, the literature on scholarly peer review suggests that peer rating may suffer from some biases. One of them is caused by gender. Therefore, this paper aims to examine gender effects on peer rating in open innovation and crowdsourcing. More specifically, we examine how judge gender and gender similarity between judge and designer affect peer rating score. This question has never been examined in the OI&C literature. Using a quasi-experimental design, we collect 1,585 evaluations and find that, overall, judge gender has no significant effect on peer rating score, but gender similarity has a negative effect. Further examinations reveal that rating mode (single-blind or double-blind) may moderate such gender effects: male judges are predicted to give a higher rating score than females when the designer’s information is disclosed while in double-blind peer rating gender similarity reduces the peer rating score. This study has practical implications to the use and design of a peer rating system in OI&C platforms

Championing Digital Innovation Success: The Role of CDOs

The disruptive nature of digital innovation has led incumbent organizations to face enormous challenges and pressure. To address the fundamentally new nature of digital innovations, incumbents have established new managerial roles, such as Chief Digital Officers (CDOs), to champion innovation. We explore the role these innovation champions play for digital innovation success and argue that internal reorganization and the sourcing of external knowledge constitute important mechanisms through which CDOs might contribute to organizations’ digital innovation success. We will empirically test our proposed research model using longitudinal data on the world’s largest companies. Our study is expected to contribute to literature on knowledge recombination and innovation management by examining how innovation champions at the C-level use internal reorganization and sourcing of external knowledge to enhance digital innovation success

In Search of New Organisational Forms – The Case for Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing

Organizational forms differ according to structure, processes and resourcing with the majority of such forms having existed for many years. However, engineering systems and technologies are becoming ever more complex and the question arises: Are there any new organizational forms emerging? Further, if there are any, what are their characteristics? This paper will attempt to answer these questions through examining the case for open innovation and crowdsourcing, which are currently two of the most high-profile technology and innovation business models being pursued. The paper will report on the findings from an exploratory investigation of open innovation in the pharmaceutical industry and crowdsourcing in the product design sector. Supporting literature has been reviewed as well as background data and information available on these two industry applications of open business models. The pros and cons for each of the industrial applications have been identified as well as examination of the underlying features. The findings from the initial research study are that both these industry applications of open innovation and crowdsourcing do potentially represent new organizational forms, which offer significant benefits but also carry certain risks and challenges

Sustainability innovation systems (SIS): IT Investments and Stages of Sustainability Maturity

We synthesize a new longitudinal framework for investing in IT assets to support sustainability and to prescribe specific investments for each stage of sustainability. This framework provides an IT investment plan for organizations that supports the five stages of sustainability and will positively moderate the relationship between an organization’s ability to traverse the stages of sustainability and organizational innovation. We propose that there is an innovation payoff at each stage and support that proposition with exemplars from the literature. To highlight their key role in supporting sustainability driven innovation, we choose to call these IT investments Sustainability Innovation Systems (SIS)

Selecting Open Innovation Ideas in Teams vs. Nominal Groups: Exploring the Effects of Idea Quantity and Idea Assignment on Idea Selection Quality and Satisfaction with Process

Idea selection is a critical activity in open innovation crowdsourcing projects. Yet, the generation of vast amounts of ideas makes it cognitively challenging to identify the subset of ideas that are worthy of further consideration. We conducted an experiment to explore the influence of idea quantity and idea sharedness on idea selection outcomes evaluated by crowds in the form of teams and nominal groups. We found that higher idea quantity is positively associated with idea selection quality and negatively associated with satisfaction with process. Further, team idea selection quality outperformed individual idea selection quality in both shared information groups and low idea quantity groups. We did not find significant differences between group idea selection quality and individual idea selection quality in the heterogeneous information groups and high idea quantity groups. Theoretical contributions and practical implications are discussed