Using Amazon Mechanical Turk and other compensated crowdsourcing sites

Schmidt, Gordon B.; Jettinghoff, William

doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2016.02.004

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“…Firms may also choose to crowdsource but they often underestimate the organisational difficulties involved (Ford et al, 2015). Crowdsourcing generally implies low qualified tasks while collaborative platforms are more likely to develop activities involving engineering jobs and supports activities such as marketing and design (Schmidt and Jettinghoff, 2016). It is worth point out explicitly that such start-ups and innovative businesses find it relatively easy to raise funds and burn cash without suffering from too much short-term pressures to extract profits by paying dividends and engaging in buybacks.…”

Section: Financialisation As An Enabling Condition For the Developmenmentioning

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Platform economy as a new form of capitalism: a Régulationist research programme

Montalban

Frigant

Jullien

2019

Cambridge Journal of Economics

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The terms ‘platform economy’ or ‘sharing economy’ have become widespread with the development of digital platforms like Uber. This economy is transforming capitalism and raising important questions about its nature. Is it a new process of embeddedness or is it the next step for deregulation following the crisis of the financialised regime of accumulation (RA)? Is it a possible new Growth Regime? Using the approach of the French Régulation school of thought, we describe the nature and transformations of the form of competition inherent in platforms. Although this may favour some forms of re-embeddedness, we show that it will accelerate some of the trends and characteristics of the institutional forms of the financialised RA and that it is an endogenous product of its crisis. This raises further questions and uncertainties related to the ability of platforms to generate stable long run growth due to the dysfunctionality of the mode of régulation and the conflicts it could generate.

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Section: Financialisation As An Enabling Condition For the Developmenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Platform economy as a new form of capitalism: a Régulationist research programme

Montalban

Frigant

Jullien

2019

Cambridge Journal of Economics

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“…For crowdsourcing to be fruitful, it must depend on a powerful, dynamic, inspired group and the persons been engaged must possess adequate skills and competencies in line with the organizations' set goals. (Schmidt and Jettinghoff, 2016). Irrespective of the research that has been done concerning online groups, there is still no reasonable arrangement of best practices for companies planning to construct and maintain these sorts of online groups (Brabham, 2012b).…”

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Crowd-sourcing (who, why and what)

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İlkan

Abubakar

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IJCS

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Purpose-There is growing interest in innovative online problem-solving models such as crowdsourcing to serve individuals, firms and the society as a whole. Crowdsourcing is the combination of efforts from various sets of individuals who are either volunteering or working part-time for socioeconomic production, basically in the cyber world. This hybrid work model is already in use by businesses and entrepreneurs; some of the platforms include Amazon mechanical Turk, 99designs, Hit RECORD and Design Crowd. Design/methodology/approach-Much has been parleyed and published, and this is primarily because of the efficient socioeconomic potentials crowdsourcing offers. Findings-This paper addressed the following three questions to help have a better understanding of crowdsourcing: who can perform crowdsourcing? why it is relevant to crowdsource in this present proliferated internet age and if there are going to be some changes in the future and the last but not the least what can be done to promote it in the society? Originality/value-This paper discusses the three W's and concludes with challenges facing the crowdsourcing work model.

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“…For work where the location of the worker does not matter, information technology helps organizations to use global workforces, sending and receiving work online. Compensated crowdsourcing (Schmidt & Jettinghoff, ) is defined as a type of outsourcing where workers are recruited through the Internet to do particular tasks by an organization when needed.…”

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“…Whole online communities exist for workers on crowdsourcing sites to share experiences, profitable tasks, and what companies (called “requesters”) are worth doing crowdsourcing work with (Schmidt & Jettinghoff, ). In fact, many such sites allow requesters to post tasks and interact directly with the workers on the site, potentially building relationships that will help requesters get high‐quality workers for future tasks.…”

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“…Leaders may prove to be emergent from the gig workforce. Some of this is currently seen with crowdsourcing workers, as people act as leaders in current online worker communities (Schmidt & Jettinghoff, ), influencing workers to work with particular requesters, and on particular tasks. Organizations will need to determine if they need to work with such emergent leaders or cultivate their own.…”

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