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My Idea Is Our Idea! Supporting User-Driven Innovation Activities In Crowdsourcing Communities

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  • MIIA KOSONEN

    (Lappeenranta University of Technology, P. O. Box 20, 53851, Lappeenranta, Finland)

  • CHUNMEI GAN

    (Lappeenranta University of Technology, P. O. Box 20, 53851, Lappeenranta, Finland;
    School of Information Management, Sun Yat-sen University, No. 132, Waihuandong Road, University City, Guangzhou 510006, Guangdong, PR China)

  • HEIDI OLANDER

    (Lappeenranta University of Technology, P. O. Box 20, 53851, Lappeenranta, Finland)

  • KIRSIMARJA BLOMQVIST

    (Lappeenranta University of Technology, P. O. Box 20, 53851, Lappeenranta, Finland)

Abstract

There is a growing stream of research unraveling individual motivations to participate in idea crowdsourcing and online user communities. While the current research has largely focused on individual user characteristics and overlooked the features of surrounding communities, our research turns the focus onto the actual community where knowledge is shared and created. We investigate the relationships between perceived support from a crowdsourcing community, and the users' intentions to share knowledge. Our research is based on a survey of 241 Chinese users of IdeasProject and shows that (1) for community trust, trust in the hosting firm has a significant effect on knowledge-sharing intentions, while collaborative norms do not; (2) for community support, both technology-based support and knowledge-based support have an effect on knowledge-sharing intentions. From a community management viewpoint, our results demonstrate the importance of providing continued support for knowledge integration, such as more opportunities for user-to-user interaction and features for providing constructive feedback.

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  • Miia Kosonen & Chunmei Gan & Heidi Olander & Kirsimarja Blomqvist, 2013. "My Idea Is Our Idea! Supporting User-Driven Innovation Activities In Crowdsourcing Communities," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 17(03), pages 1-18.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:17:y:2013:i:03:n:s1363919613400100
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919613400100
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    1. Lalicic, Lidija & Dickinger, Astrid, 2019. "An assessment of user-driven innovativeness in a mobile computing travel platform," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 144(C), pages 233-241.
    2. Rita Faullant & Patrick Holzmann & Erich J. Schwarz, 2016. "Everybody Is Invited But Not Everybody Will Come — The Influence Of Personality Dispositions On Users’ Entry Decisions For Crowdsourcing Competitions," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 20(06), pages 1-20, August.
    3. Christian W. Scheiner & Christian V. Baccarella & John Bessant & Kai-Ingo Voigt, 2018. "Participation Motives, Moral Disengagement, And Unethical Behaviour In Idea Competitions," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 22(06), pages 1-24, August.
    4. Viktoria Boss & Robin Kleer & Alexander Vossen, 2017. "Walking Parallel Paths Or Taking The Same Road? The Effect Of Collaborative Incentives In Innovation Contests," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 21(03), pages 1-34, April.
    5. Hyeon Jo & Youngsok Bang, 2023. "Factors influencing continuance intention of participants in crowdsourcing," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-13, December.
    6. Anna S. Cui & Fang Wu, 2016. "Utilizing customer knowledge in innovation: antecedents and impact of customer involvement on new product performance," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Springer, vol. 44(4), pages 516-538, July.
    7. Mathis Poser & Gerrit C. Küstermann & Navid Tavanapour & Eva A. C. Bittner, 2022. "Design and Evaluation of a Conversational Agent for Facilitating Idea Generation in Organizational Innovation Processes," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 24(3), pages 771-796, June.
    8. Marie Beck & Oliviane Brodin & Jean-François Mallet, 2016. "When the crowd finances: the role of the project, of the project's bearer and the platform in the willingness to participate," Post-Print hal-03350108, HAL.

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