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Winning by Learning? Effect of Knowledge Sharing in Crowdsourcing Contests
Information systems research, 2021Crowdsourcing is a new way for online crowds to get involved in a company’s research and development process. Businesses can host public contests on online platforms (such as Kaggle, Topcoder, and Tongal) to seek new product ideas and technological ...
Yuan Jin +3 more
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An Empirical Model of R&D Procurement Contests: An Analysis of the DOD SBIR Program
Econometrica, 2021Firms and governments often use R&D contests to incentivize suppliers to develop and deliver innovative products. The optimal design of such contests depends on empirical primitives: the cost of research, the uncertainty in outcomes, and the surplus ...
Vivek Bhattacharya
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Effect of Crowd Voting on Participation in Crowdsourcing Contests
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2020While expert rating is still a dominant approach for selecting winners in contests for creative works, a few crowdsourcing platforms have recently used “crowd voting” for winner selection – that is, let users of the crowdsourcing community publicly vote ...
Liang Chen, Pei Xu, De Liu
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Joint vs. Separate Crowdsourcing Contests
Management Sciences, 2020In a crowdsourcing contest, innovation is outsourced by a firm to an open crowd that competes in generating innovative solutions. Given that the projects typically consist of multiple attributes, how should the firm optimally design a crowdsourcing ...
Ming Hu, Lu Wang
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The Role of Feedback in Dynamic Crowdsourcing Contests: A Structural Empirical Analysis
Management Sciences, 2020In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of performance feedback on the outcome of crowdsourcing contests. We develop a dynamic structural model to capture the economic processes that drive contest participants’ behavior and estimate the model ...
Zhaohui (Zoey) Jiang, Yan Huang, D. Beil
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Contest Among Contest Organizers
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017Crowdsourcing using innovation contests has become a popular tool to source innovative solutions to various problems organizations face. With several innovation contests that run in parallel, two key questions are how the number of contests affects ...
Ersin KKrpeoolu +2 more
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Economic Inquiry, 1988
Firms frequently use contests to compensate their employees: an employee's pay depends on the ranking of his output compared to that of others, rather than on the absolute level of his output. This paper analyzes the design of a contest which maximizes the contestants' expected aggregate output, and describes two settings which yield opposite results ...
AMIHAI GLAZER, REFAEL HASSIN
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Firms frequently use contests to compensate their employees: an employee's pay depends on the ranking of his output compared to that of others, rather than on the absolute level of his output. This paper analyzes the design of a contest which maximizes the contestants' expected aggregate output, and describes two settings which yield opposite results ...
AMIHAI GLAZER, REFAEL HASSIN
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Contesting Identities, Contesting Nation
Policy Futures in Education, 2009The globalization process disturbs a rather deep-seated intuition that culture has a special relationship to geographical place. (Tomlinson, 2007, p. 151) Contributors to this Special Issue identify the problematic status of post-colonial identities within cultural studies scholarship as a point of departure.
Cameron McCarthy +9 more
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2019
Competitive situations resembling contests are ubiquitous in modern economic landscape. In a contest, economic agents expend costly effort to vie for limited prizes, and they are rewarded for “getting ahead” of their opponents instead of their absolute ...
Qiang Fu, Zenan Wu
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Competitive situations resembling contests are ubiquitous in modern economic landscape. In a contest, economic agents expend costly effort to vie for limited prizes, and they are rewarded for “getting ahead” of their opponents instead of their absolute ...
Qiang Fu, Zenan Wu
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Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2019
Since the 1970's, models based on evolutionary game theory, such as war of attrition (WOA), energetic war of attrition (E‐WOA), cumulative assessment model (CAM) and sequential assessment model (SAM), have been widely applied to understand how animals ...
N. S. Pinto, A. Palaoro, P. E. Peixoto
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Since the 1970's, models based on evolutionary game theory, such as war of attrition (WOA), energetic war of attrition (E‐WOA), cumulative assessment model (CAM) and sequential assessment model (SAM), have been widely applied to understand how animals ...
N. S. Pinto, A. Palaoro, P. E. Peixoto
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