Journal Article

Evaluation on crowdsourcing research: Current status and future direction

Zhao, Yuxiang, Zhu, Qinghua

2014

Overview

Crowdsourcing is one of the emerging Web 2.0 based phenomenon and has attracted great attention from both practitioners and scholars over the years. It can facilitate the connectivity and collaboration of people, organizations, and societies. We believe that Information Systems scholars are in a unique position to make significant contributions to this emerging research area and consider it as a new research frontier. However, so far, few studies have elaborated what have been achieved and what should be done. This paper seeks to present a critical examination of the substrate of crowdsourcing research by surveying the landscape of existing studies, including theoretical foundations, research methods, and research foci, and identifies several important research directions for IS scholars from three perspectives—the participant, organization, and system—and which warrant further study. This research contributes to the IS literature and provides insights for researchers, designers, policy-makers, and managers to better understand various issues in crowdsourcing systems and projects.

• Publisher: Springer US,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Authorship / Business and Management / Collaboration / Control / Crowdsourcing / Evaluation research / Foundations / Information systems / Information technology / Interagency collaboration / IT in Business / Keywords / Landscapes / Management of Computing and Information Systems / Operations Research/Decision Theory / Organizations / Policy making / Problem solving / Research applications / Research methodology / Studies / Surveying / Systems Theory / Web 2.0 / World Wide Web