How Does Online Interaction Affect Idea Quality? The Effect of Feedback in Firm‐Internal Idea Competitions

Zhu, Hangzi; Kock, Alexander; Wentker, Marc; Leker, Jens

doi:10.1111/jpim.12442

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“…The Yale model describes the situational surroundings' strong impact on the persuasion process. While the idea campaign's set‐up fundamentally controls these surroundings, the community's contributions to corporate online ideation platforms offer an additional aspect for evaluation (Beretta, ; Janis and Hovland, ; Zhu et al, ). Similar to the abovementioned ideator, the corporate online ideation platform's community does not interact directly with the evaluator, but via its actions on the platform, and especially with the evaluated idea.…”

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“…In conclusion, the community's effects on the persuasion are similar to those as described in the interventionist model (Evans, ). However, the effect is not equal, as the community only contributes to already formulated ideas and thus plays the role of a supporter (Zhu et al, ). From the situational surroundings dimension, which the Yale attitude change approach defines, attention , positioning , contribution , and sincerity emerge as factors of the community's effects on the corporate online ideation platform.…”

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“…Positive comments on an idea have been shown to be an indicator of idea implementation (Hoornaert et al, ). Furthermore, comments can contribute to ideas by providing new insights into problems and how the relevant idea can overcome these (Zhu et al, ). By relying on the wisdom of crowds, the community's contribution enables tapping into information that would otherwise not have been available, since the ideator would neither have known of its existence, nor where to find it (Schemmann et al, ; Surowiecki, ).…”

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“…By relying on the wisdom of crowds, the community's contribution enables tapping into information that would otherwise not have been available, since the ideator would neither have known of its existence, nor where to find it (Schemmann et al, ; Surowiecki, ). Contributions are therefore an essential element of crowdsourcing on ideation platforms in order to influence evaluators' decisions (Zhu et al, ).…”

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“…Organizations increasingly endeavor to leverage individual creativity through online ideation platforms in order to harness the ideas of their customers, users (Poetz and Schreier, ), and employees (Björk and Magnusson, ). Corporate online ideation platforms tap into employees' creativity and knowledge in a closed setting, generating a large amount of high‐quality ideas and thus adding to an organization's innovation portfolio (Beretta, ; Kock, Heising, and Gemünden, ; Zhu, Kock, Wentker, and Leker, ). Since not all ideas can be implemented, the large number of generated ideas require a careful evaluation of idea quality.…”

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Persuasion in Corporate Idea Contests: The Moderating Role of Content Scarcity on Decision‐Making

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Tilsner²,

Schindler³

et al. 2019

J of Product Innov Manag

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Organizations increasingly use corporate online ideation platforms to foster individual innovativeness. Recent research, however, has shown the downside of such contests—the selection of ideas is not entirely rational. Analyzing the impact of content scarcity, which occurs when ideators provide very little issue‐relevant information when submitting ideas, contributes to this new literature stream. The main argument is that evaluators increasingly rely on heuristics based on issue‐irrelevant information when content scarcity obstructs reflective decision‐making. The default‐interventionist model of decision‐making in combination with the Yale attitude change approach allows us to examine the mechanisms evaluators apply when content scarcity occurs. The hypotheses are tested on an extensive data set of 3025 ideas. The results show that content scarcity affects the evaluators' decision‐making process by preventing them from intervening their first intuitive decision. The scarcer the content of the submitted idea, the stronger the persuasiveness of issue‐irrelevant aspects that affect idea selection: aspects of the ideator, message, and community.

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Section: Research Model and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

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Section: Research Model and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

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Persuasion in Corporate Idea Contests: The Moderating Role of Content Scarcity on Decision‐Making

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Knowledge and innovation management in agribusiness: A study in the Dominican Republic

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To date and worldwide, most business activities in the agribusiness sectors have focused on increasing productive efficiency to the detriment of the environmental impact of these activities, despite close connection that exist between agribusinesses and natural resources. This paper argues that knowledge and innovation management (KIM) can play a key role in fostering and managing creativity in the agribusiness sector. To test this assumption, an empirical model linking KIM with employee creativity, responsible green innovation, and performance in the agribusiness sector of the Dominican Republic is proposed and tested with data from 110 agribusiness companies. We found that strengthening the relationships between the above constructs is needed, with a view to readjusting the meaning of firm performance in the light of emerging (post-pandemic) circumstances for agribusinesses. The statistical analyses yield important implications and recommendations for practice, management, and policy making in these areas in this country and elsewhere.

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Managing the Crowd: A Literature Review of Empirical Studies on Internal Crowdsourcing

Pohlisch

2020

Contributions to Management Science

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The phenomenon of crowdsourcing is increasingly being addressed in academic literature. Companies utilize crowdsourcing to search for solutions to internal problems outside of the companies’ boundaries, accessing the vast and diverse knowledge and creativity of people all over the world. More recently, a growing interest has emerged that concentrates on the intra-organizational application of this phenomenon—internal crowdsourcing. While conventional internal innovation activities are mostly concentrated within a few dedicated departments, this new approach helps companies to open up their innovation process to all employees. Internal crowdsourcing can help companies bridge geographical distances, integrate new employees, predict the market success of products, and create ideas for new businesses.This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the existing empirical findings regarding the management of internal crowdsourcing. In this review, 27 papers, covering more than 100 companies, are analysed. They are based on more than 800 interviews, participant observations, action design research, surveys, and datasets of internal innovation contests. The results of this review will help practitioners to design the management of internal crowdsourcing based on existing implementations and lessons learned, helping them to unleash the full innovation potential of their employees, creating a valuable competitive advantage.

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How Does Online Interaction Affect Idea Quality? The Effect of Feedback in Firm‐Internal Idea Competitions

Cited by 70 publications

References 88 publications

Persuasion in Corporate Idea Contests: The Moderating Role of Content Scarcity on Decision‐Making

Persuasion in Corporate Idea Contests: The Moderating Role of Content Scarcity on Decision‐Making

Knowledge and innovation management in agribusiness: A study in the Dominican Republic

Managing the Crowd: A Literature Review of Empirical Studies on Internal Crowdsourcing

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