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MIS Q., 2018
Crowdsourcing contests are contests by which organizations tap into the wisdom of crowds by outsourcing tasks to large groups of people on the Internet.
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Crowdsourcing contests are contests by which organizations tap into the wisdom of crowds by outsourcing tasks to large groups of people on the Internet.
Lian Jian +4 more
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Civic Engagement and Politics, 2019
Cities all over the world are challenged with problems evolving from increasing urbanity, population growth, and density. For example, one prominent issue that is addressed in many cities is mobility.
S. Hartmann +2 more
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Cities all over the world are challenged with problems evolving from increasing urbanity, population growth, and density. For example, one prominent issue that is addressed in many cities is mobility.
S. Hartmann +2 more
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Salience Bias in Crowdsourcing Contests
Information systems research, 2017Crowdsourcing relies on online platforms to connect a community of users to perform specific tasks. However, without appropriate control, the behavior of the online community might not align with the platform’s designed objective, which can lead to an ...
Ho Cheung Brian Lee +3 more
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Sorting Contests and Contestants
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022We study the sorting of contestants across Tullock contests, and the allocation of a prize budget across these contests. Our benchmark result is that total effort is maximized by a unique grand contest and contestant exclusions decrease total effort. We consider two extensions of our benchmark result.
Barbieri, S., Serena, M.
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Contested norms, contested territory
2022The South China Sea dispute is one of the most complex and multi-layered conflicts globally. For one, it includes the territorial disputes between China, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Viet Nam, and Taiwan about which maritime features belong to which state. However, the conflict has another, much more global dimension.
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A Structural Analysis of the Role of Superstars in Crowdsourcing Contests
Information systems research, 2017In crowdsourcing contests, participants solve a well-defined problem and compete for a fixed prize. Past studies as well as anecdotal evidence have shown that individuals may avoid competing with superstar participants (the ones whose skills are far more
Shunyuan Zhang, P. Singh, A. Ghose
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Public Choice, 2008 We examine the effects of providing more accurate information to a political decision-maker lobbied by competing interests. We investigate how this bias in the direction of the correct decision affects efficiency, measured (inversely) by both the probability of taking an incorrect decision, and the amount of social waste associated to lobbying ...
Matthias Dahm, Nicolás Porteiro
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The Role of Participation in Innovation Contests
Management Sciences, 2017Many firms use external contests to obtain solutions to their innovation challenges. A central managerial concern is how to screen the population for only the most capable people when the capability of the population is not known. If the manager sets the
Konstantinos I. Stouras +2 more
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Games and Economic Behavior, 2009 We study equilibrium in a multistage race in which players compete in a sequence of simultaneous move component contests. Players may win a prize for winning each component contest, as well as a prize for winning the overall race. Each component contest is an all-pay auction with complete information. We characterize the unique equilibrium analytically
Konrad, Kai A., Kovenock, Dan
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2017
This chapter examines the “contested terrain” associated with the founding of Chicago’s Douglass National Bank in 1921. Anthony Overton, one of history’s most prominent African American entrepreneurs, is widely regarded as the founder of the second national bank organized by African Americans. Yet, the evidence indicates that this distinction should go
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This chapter examines the “contested terrain” associated with the founding of Chicago’s Douglass National Bank in 1921. Anthony Overton, one of history’s most prominent African American entrepreneurs, is widely regarded as the founder of the second national bank organized by African Americans. Yet, the evidence indicates that this distinction should go
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