1. What is Crowdsourcing for Innovation? -- 2. Our Research on Comparing Idea Sharing -- 3. Practice #1: Minimally Committed Knowledge Baton Passers -- 4. Practice #2: Crowds Offering a Variety of Types of Knowledge Are More Innovative Than Crowds Suggesting More Ideas -- 5. Practice #3: Amplify...

Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on open innovation by firms to keep pace with the growing intricacy of products and services and the ever changing needs of the markets. Much has been written about open innovation and its manifestation in the form of crowdsourcing. Unfortunately,...

The healthcare market faces severe information asymmetry — patients struggle to evaluate the clinical quality of hospitals and make choices accordingly. To inform patients of hospital selection, crowdsourced review platforms (e.g., Yelp) have begun to display hospitals’ clinical quality...