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: Received: 31 July 2022 / Approved: 8 August 2022 / Online: 8 August 2022 (04:09:12 CEST)
How to cite:
He, H.R.; Zhang, X.; Jing, D. Investigating Value Co-creation in Crowdsourcing: The Revelatory Case of the Shield. Preprints2022, 2022080130. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0130.v1
He, H.R.; Zhang, X.; Jing, D. Investigating Value Co-creation in Crowdsourcing: The Revelatory Case of the Shield. Preprints 2022, 2022080130. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0130.v1
He, H.R.; Zhang, X.; Jing, D. Investigating Value Co-creation in Crowdsourcing: The Revelatory Case of the Shield. Preprints2022, 2022080130. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0130.v1
APA Style
He, H.R., Zhang, X., & Jing, D. (2022). Investigating Value Co-creation in Crowdsourcing: The Revelatory Case of the Shield. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0130.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
He, H.R., Xingnan Zhang and Dian Jing. 2022 "Investigating Value Co-creation in Crowdsourcing: The Revelatory Case of the Shield" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0130.v1
Abstract
As a typical form of value co-creation, crowdsourcing has been increasingly applied by firms to generate business value. By engaging a crowd, a platform, and other stakeholders, a crowdsourcer can foster the co-creation of a portfolio of value for diverse stakeholders. In analyzing the value co-creation in crowdsourcing, we propose a framework by combining the theories and frameworks in value co-creation and crowdsourcing. The framework examines the key stakeholders, joint purpose, engaged value co-creation processes, contributions, bidirectional relationships of the engagement, and perceived value, exhibiting a holistic view of the value co-creation in a crowdsourcing project. Results of the analysis reveal the business performance of the crowdsourcing project and identify areas of improvement regarding business sustainability. This is a major theoretical contribution of this study. The research design applied a case study approach to empirically investigate a crowdsourcing project. Both the theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Keywords
crowdsourcing; value co-creation; business sustainability; stakeholder
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Business and Management
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