Innovation platforms are powerful instruments for harnessing crowd creativity. Yet, platform users still struggle with cognitive barriers when looking to unfold their creative potential. This conceptual article identifies three barriers from innovation literature and outlines how artificial...

Mit dem Begriff Crowdsourcing bezeichnete Jeff Howe 2006 den damals neuen Trend, bislang intern erledigte Aufgaben über das Internet an eine unbegrenzte Menge potenziell Mitwirkender (die "crowd") auszulagern ("outsourcing"). Dazu nutzen Unternehmen heute einen wachsenden Markt an externen...

This study draws on signaling theory to investigate the effect of hedonic signals in crowdfunding projects on funding performance. It compares the effect of hedonic signals across reward-, equity-, and donation-based crowdfunding platforms by combining archival data from 18 platforms and a...

While traditional organizations create value within the boundaries of their firm or supply chain, digital platforms leverage and orchestrate a platform-mediated ecosystem to create and co-create value with a much wider array of partners and actors. Although the change to two-sided markets and...

We currently observe the rapid emergence of startups that use Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of their business model. While recent research suggests that AI startups employ novel or different business models, one could argue that AI technology has been used in business models for a long...

Digital technologies are radically changing how established organizations design novel services. Digital transformation (DT) strategies are executed to manage the transition from product-centric to service-centric business models based on digital technologies. However, little is known about what...

In recent years, process mining has emerged as the leading big data technology for business process analysis. By extracting knowledge from event logs in information systems, process mining provides unprecedented transparency of business processes while being independent of the source system....

Cities around the world face major challenges caused by the extensive use of private cars. To counteract these problems, a new paradigm is necessary which promotes alternative mobility services. ‘Smart mobility’ refers to a new mobility behaviour that makes use of innovative technical...