Creating and Capturing Value through Crowdsourcing

by Tucci, Christopher L.; Afuah, Allan; Viscusi, Gianluigi

• ISBN13: 9780191853562
• ISBN10: 0191853569
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2018-05-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Christopher L. Tucci, Dean of the College of Management of Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Allan Afuah, Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business, Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Gianluigi Viscusi, Research Fellow, Chair of Corporate Strategy and Innovation, College of Management, Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne

Christopher L. Tucci is Professor of Management of Technology at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, where he holds the Chair in Corporate Strategy & Innovation. He received the Ph.D. in Management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before going back for his PhD, his prior work experience was as an industrial computer scientist at Ford Aerospace, where he was involved in developing Internet protocols in the 1980s. Tucci's primary area of interest is in technological change and how waves of technological changes influence entrant / incumbent dynamics. He is the co-author of the books Nurturing Science-Based Ventures and Internet Business Models and Strategies, and has published articles in, among others, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Research Policy, and Communications of the ACM.


Allan Afuah is Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD from MIT. His honors include the 1999 MBA Teacher of the Year at Michigan. His 2012 article 'Crowdsourcing as solution to distant search' (co-authored with Christopher Tucci) won the 2013 AMR Best Paper Award. His books, Innovation Management: Strategies, Implementation, and Profits, (Oxford University Press) and Internet Business Models (co-authored with Christopher Tucci, McGrawHill) have been translated into several languages. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Sloan Management Review.


Gianluigi Viscusi (PhD) is research fellow at the Chair of Corporate Strategy and Innovation (CSI) of the EPFL. His areas of expertise include information systems strategy and planning, business modeling, public policy and ICT-enabled Innovation, e-Government, information quality and value, service management and engineering, social study of information systems. He has been consultant on e-government planning, policy design, and implementation roadmaps for international organizations such as, e.g., the OECD. His research has been published in a range of books, conference proceedings, and journals such as, Government Information Quarterly. In 2010 he has co-authored with Carlo Batini and Massimo Mecella Information Systems for eGovernment: A quality of service perspective (Springer, Heidelberg).

Table of Contents

Part I : Crowdsourcing : Fundamentals and the Role of Crowds and Communities
1. Introduction to the Chapters, Allan Afuah, Christopher Tucci, and Gianluigi Viscusi
2. Crowdsourcing : A Primer and Framework, Allan Afuah
3. Three's a Crowd?, Gianluigi Viscusi and Christopher Tucci
4. How Firms Leverage Crowds and Communities for Open Innovation, Joel West and Jonathan Sims
5. Tapping into Diversity through Open Innovation Platforms: The Emergence of Boundary Spanning Practices, Natalia Levina and Anne-Laure Fayard
Part II : Tournament-Based Crowdsourcing
6. A Problem in the Making: How Firms Formulate Sharable Problems for Open Innovation Contests, Martin W. Wallin, Georg von Krogh, and Jan Henrik Sieg
7. The Role of Information Patterns in Designing Crowdsourcing Contests, Gireeja V. Ranade and Lav R. Varshney
Part III : Collaboration-Based Crowdsourcing
8. Renegotiating Public Value with Co-Production, Antonio Cordella, Andrea Palletti, and Maha Shaikh
9. The Road to Crowdfunding Success: A Review of Extant Literature, Vincenzo Buttice, Chiara Franzoni, Cristina Rossi-Lamastra, and Paola Rovelli
10. Co-Creation from a Telecommunication Provider's Perspective: A Comparative Study on Innovation with Customers and Employees, Milica Sundic and Karl-Heinz Leitner
Part IV: Hybrids: Tournament-Based and Collaboration-Based Crowdsourcing
11. Co-opetition in Crowdsourcing: When Simultaneous Cooperation and Competition Deliver Superior Solutions, Allan Afuah
12. Prediction Markets For Crowdsourcing, Christian Horn, Marcel Bogers, and Alexander Brem
13. Ethics in Crowdsourcing: Revisiting and Revising the Role of Stakeholder Theory, Daniel Curto-Millet and Arsalan Nisar