Motivating participation in crowdsourcing contests: The role of instruction-writing strategy

2022 | Information & Management | Citations: 0

Authors: Yin, Xicheng; Zhu, Kevin; Wang, Hongwei; Zhang, Jiaping; Wang, Wei; Zhang, Heng

Abstract: Task instructions are seeker-generated content aiming to disclose information an ... Expand

Abstract: Task instructions are seeker-generated content aiming to disclose information and persuade solvers to participate in crowdsourcing contests. There are various writing strategies for task instructions, with different levels of informativeness and persuasiveness for solvers. This work examines how requirement-oriented and rewardoriented strategies affect solver participation. The empirical results reveal a U-shaped relationship between the usage of restrictive words and the number of participants. In contrast, an inverted U-shaped relationship is found between terminology usage and participation. Emphasizing intrinsic and extrinsic rewards through issuerelevant information statements and emotional appeals also proves to be effective in motivating solvers’ involvement. Collapse

Topics: crowdsourcing Python knowledge representation task complexity database system

Methods: natural language processing machine learning word2vec statistical hypothesis test descriptive statistic

Theories: expectancy theory of motivation dual-system theory

Chasing the Hottest It: Effects of Information Technology Fashion on Organizations

2010 | Management Information Systems Quarterly | Citations: 226

Authors: Wang, Ping

Abstract: What happens to organizations that chase the hottest information technologies? T ... Expand

Abstract: What happens to organizations that chase the hottest information technologies? This study examines some of the important organizational impacts of the fashion phenomenon in IT. An IT fashion is a transitory collective belief that an information technology is new, efficient, and at the forefront of practice. Using data collected from published discourse and annual IT budgets of 109 large companies for a decade, I have found that firms whose names were associated with IT fashions in the press did not have higher performance, but they had better reputation and higher executive compensation in the near term. Companies investing in IT in fashion also had higher reputation and executive pay, but they had lower performance in the short term and then improved performance in the long term. These results support a fashion explanation for the middle phase diffusion of IT innovations, illustrating that following fashion can legitimize organizations and their leaders regardless of performance improvement. The findings also extend institutional theory from its usual focus on taken-for-granted practices to fashion as a novel source of social approval. This study suggests that practitioners balance between performance pressure and social approval when they confront whatever is hottest in IT. Collapse

Topics: innovation management digital innovation IT investment organizational productivity technology diffusion

Methods: regression analysis method survey descriptive statistic archival research longitudinal research

Theories: management fashion theory institutional theory

Going IT Alone: The Experienced IT Worker as Integrator of Business and IT Domains of Knowledge

2009 | International Conference on Information Systems | Citations: 2

Authors: Slaughter, Kelly T

Abstract: Though the need for user participation to successfully develop information syste ... Expand

Abstract: Though the need for user participation to successfully develop information systems is a commonly accepted MIS axiom, empirical studies have failed to consistently establish the benefits of user participation. To resolve this paradox, we reconsider the underlying premise that business knowledge must be provided by business workers. Instead, as IT is embedded in the business, IT workers necessarily learn both domains in the act of work, and the integration of the two can be achieved through experienced IT workers. To examine this proposition, we studied a group of IT workers who implemented an IS in forty-seven sites over a two year period. Through learning curve methods and change-point analysis, we find that the IT workers achieved greater success as their experience increased while concurrently user participation activities decreased. These findings, consistent with the main proposition, suggest a new approach to valuing the IT workers’ contributions. Collapse

Topics: IT workforce participatory design systems implementation economies of scope IT work

Methods: design methodology longitudinal research computational algorithm Breusch–Godfrey test ordinary least square

Knowledge Retention and Personnel Mobility: The Nondisruptive Effects of Inflows of Experience

2003 | Organization Science | Citations: 12

Authors: Madsen, Tammy L.; Mosakowski, Elaine; Zaheer, Srilata

Abstract: Firms often bring in personnel from rivals to gain tacit knowledge and skills. P ... Expand

Abstract: Firms often bring in personnel from rivals to gain tacit knowledge and skills. Personnel new to a firm may broaden the firm's knowledge stock, but may not disrupt the firm's ways of organizing. Instead, personnel inflows may contribute to the retention of a firm's traditional ways of organizing. This study tracks the flow of personnel within and across organizational boundaries (intrafirm and interfirm flows) and geographic boundaries (local and cross-border flows) for multiunit banks operating in the Foreign Exchange Trade Industry from 1973-1993. We test how a firm's retention activity responds to inflows of personnel from different sources (e.g., intrafirm, interfirm, local, and cross-border). The findings show that inflows of personnel from different sources increase a firm's retention activity. Rather than adopting changes in behavior in response to an influx of personnel from within or across spatial boundaries, firms in the foreign exchange industry tend to retain their existing ways of organizing. Personnel inflows from a combination of sources, such as local intrafirm, cross-border intrafirm, local interfirm, and cross-border interfirm, also positively affect retention. By examining the differences in the magnitudes of these effects, we empirically show that considering different sources of personnel inflows in combination is worthwhile. Collapse

Topics: implicit knowledge intranet knowledge base database system organizational memory

Methods: qualitative interview longitudinal research autocorrelation analysis statistical hypothesis test time series analysis