Solvers' committed resources in crowdsourcing marketplace: do task design characteristics matter?

It has become pervasive in the contemporary world that organisations leverage crowdsourcing to solicit ideas or innovations from the public. However, challenges exist in how to design tasks in an appropriate way to stimulate crowdsourcees' investing more resources in crowdsourcing activities. Motiva...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Behaviour & Information Technology Vol. 41; no. 8; pp. 1689 - 1709
Autores principales: Li, Jizi, Wang, Ying, Yu, Dengku, Liu, Chunling
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2022
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=157567089&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ccm
    uiTerm: 157567089
    longDbName: CINAHL Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    dissinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        0144929X
        B6Q
      jtl: Behaviour & Information Technology
      issn: 0144929X
      maglogo: Y
    pubinfo:
      dt: Jun2022
      vid: 41
      iid: 8
      pid: 377
      pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    artinfo:
      ui:
        157567089
        149120944
        157567089
        157567089
        10.1080/0144929X.2021.1895320
        157567089
      ppf: 1689
      ppct: 20
      formats:
      tig:
        atl: Solvers' committed resources in crowdsourcing marketplace: do task design characteristics matter?
      aug:
        au:
          Li, Jizi
          Wang, Ying
          Yu, Dengku
          Liu, Chunling
        affil: Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Management, Nanchang University, Nanchang, People's Republic of China
      sug:
        subj:
          Crowdsourcing
          Marketing China
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Human
          Motivation
          Models, Theoretical
          Personality
          China
          Surveys
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Male
          Female
          Diffusion of Innovation
          Funding Source
          Educational Status
          Income
          Descriptive Statistics
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Male
          Female
      ab: It has become pervasive in the contemporary world that organisations leverage crowdsourcing to solicit ideas or innovations from the public. However, challenges exist in how to design tasks in an appropriate way to stimulate crowdsourcees' investing more resources in crowdsourcing activities. Motivated thus, draw on the valence theory, we propose a model to explain the influence of task design characteristics on solvers' committed resources with the consideration of the mediating role of task difficulty-significance factors. The model was assessed by using data collected from 274 crowdsourcees on two large Chinese crowdsourcing platforms. As hypothesised, crowdsourcing type, deadline, task incentives and task volume are found to positively affect perceived task significance, whereas crowdsourcing type and deadline negatively impact perceived task difficulty, personality has an indirect impact on perceived task significance by effectively enhancing solvers' positive traits and alleviating their vulnerable attitudes. In addition, we find that perceived task significance partially mediates the effect of task design and committed resources, while perceived task difficulty mediates the associations between crowdsourcing type, deadline and committed resource. The theoretical contributions and practical implications are also discussed.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype:
        research
        tables/charts
        Journal Article
      ougenre: Article
    language: English
    refInfo:
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N