• DocumentCode
    3474970
  • Title

    An Empirical Study of Social Capital in Participation in Online Crowdsourcing

  • Author

    Peng Ling ; Zhang Mian

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Manage., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7-9 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Online crowdsourcing has become a new innovation business model through Internet . This paper studied the motives of the use of online crowdsourcing and the social capital in its community. The results indicates that learning, direct compensation, self-marketing and social motives are motives to activate the participation in outsourcing activities. Participation not only can increase company´s innovation capability but also accumulate social capital of the crowdsoucing community formed by online participants.
  • Keywords
    Internet; innovation management; labour resources; outsourcing; Internet; direct compensation; innovation business model; learning; online crowdsourcing; online participants; outsourcing activity participation; self-marketing; social capital; social motives; Biological system modeling; Bonding; Companies; Indexes; Internet; Technological innovation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    E-Product E-Service and E-Entertainment (ICEEE), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Henan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7159-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEEE.2010.5660804
  • Filename
    5660804