Crowdsourcing for innovation: How related and unrelated perspectives interact to increase creative performance |
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| Institution: | 1. Saint Joseph''s University, 303 Mandeville Hall, 5600 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19131, USA;2. University of Tennessee, 323 Stokely Management Center, 916 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-0530, USA;3. Fox School of Business, Temple University, 1801 Liacouras Walk, A523 Alter Hall (006-09), Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083, USA |
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| Abstract: | In recent years, several organizations have opened up their innovation processes to individuals from outside of the organization by means of digital crowdsourcing. The literature on crowdsourcing has emphasized the importance of using digital technology to reach far beyond organizational boundaries and include individuals with (educational) backgrounds that are very different and unrelated to those within the organization in its innovation process. It has been argued that such individuals will contribute novel insights because they consider an organization's innovation challenge from different perspectives. Building on the literature on creativity and absorptive capacity, we instead argue that having a related perspective will positively affect an individual's idea performance, while unrelated perspectives only positively contribute to idea performance in combination with a related perspective. Analyses of 2178 ideas contributed by 948 crowd members to 68 crowdsourced idea challenges show that it is important to consider how (educational) backgrounds can provide individuals with multiple perspectives, which can be either related or unrelated, and study how the interplay of related and unrelated perspectives affects the value of ideas in organizational open innovation initiatives. |
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| Keywords: | Open innovation Digitization Crowdsourcing Idea generation Educational background Perspective |
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