Market price information is not widely available to many firms in the developing world. In these settings, information sharing agreements among competing firms can create significant benefits. However, such agreements may be difficult to implement, because a firm might fear that sharing its...

Volunteering is a widespread allocation mechanism at the workplace and emerges naturally in open-source software development, the generation of online knowledge platforms, and to some extent in “agile” work environments. Using a field experiment with 8 treatments and close to 2,800 workers...

We consider a Dynamic Workforce Acquisition (DWA) problem for crowdsourced last-mile delivery platforms that need to match supply (the number of available workers) with demand (the number of requested deliveries). This need arises due to the fact that the initial number of scheduled workers does...

Die soziale Absicherung in der Plattformarbeit weist gravierende Lücken auf. Das Konzept "Digitale Soziale Sicherung" zeigt, wie die Sozialversicherung auch in einen sehr kurzfristig agierenden, (teilweise) internationalen Markt integriert werden kann. Dabei wird in die Plattformen ein...

Im Rahmen der Digitalisierung entstehen dynamische Kräfte, die zukünftige Arbeitsstrukturen prägen. In der Praxis sind Unternehmen zunehmend daran interessiert, ihre eigenen Mitarbeiter in einer internen Crowd einzusetzen. Daher hat die Anwendung von internem Crowdsourcing in Unternehmen als...

Brands and advertisers often tap into the crowd to generate ideas for new products and ad creatives by hosting ideation contests. Content evaluators then winnow thousands of submitted ideas before a separate stakeholder, such as a manager or client, decides on a small subset to pursue. We...