The impact of contest attributes on solvers’ participation and performance in crowdsourcing contests
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Data de Publicação: | 2016 |
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Título da fonte: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) |
Texto Completo: | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/20771 |
Resumo: | Crowdsourcing contests as a means to leverage the knowledge of external individuals to solve firms’ innovation problems are growing in popularity. Little research has been de-voted to the question how such contests should be ideally designed in order to achieve a high level of participation and high quality solutions. By analysing a data set of 913 soft-ware engineering contests from the platform TopCoder, this study investigates the impli-cations of three particular contest elements: the number of participants, the monetary award and the problem description. The results confirm the theoretic model, stating that a large number of participants is preferable for a seeker (firm) and outweighs the arising disadvantage of lowered efforts of solvers due to a greater competition. This theoretic discussion was enriched by the finding of a curvilinear relationship between the number of solvers and the contest’s performance, wherefore adding contestants is only beneficial until a certain level. Furthermore, results show that a high monetary award captures more participants but leads to a lower contest performance, which is contrary to prior research. Regarding the problem description, it was shown that a short problem description in-creases participation and improves the contest performance whereas a problem descrip-tion, which includes URL links to other homepages, reduces participation but improves a contest’s best solution. By understanding the outcomes of this study, firms better under-stand how to design crowdsourcing contests. |
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The impact of contest attributes on solvers’ participation and performance in crowdsourcing contestsCrowdsourcingOpen innovationInnovationContest elementsDomínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e GestãoCrowdsourcing contests as a means to leverage the knowledge of external individuals to solve firms’ innovation problems are growing in popularity. Little research has been de-voted to the question how such contests should be ideally designed in order to achieve a high level of participation and high quality solutions. By analysing a data set of 913 soft-ware engineering contests from the platform TopCoder, this study investigates the impli-cations of three particular contest elements: the number of participants, the monetary award and the problem description. The results confirm the theoretic model, stating that a large number of participants is preferable for a seeker (firm) and outweighs the arising disadvantage of lowered efforts of solvers due to a greater competition. This theoretic discussion was enriched by the finding of a curvilinear relationship between the number of solvers and the contest’s performance, wherefore adding contestants is only beneficial until a certain level. Furthermore, results show that a high monetary award captures more participants but leads to a lower contest performance, which is contrary to prior research. Regarding the problem description, it was shown that a short problem description in-creases participation and improves the contest performance whereas a problem descrip-tion, which includes URL links to other homepages, reduces participation but improves a contest’s best solution. By understanding the outcomes of this study, firms better under-stand how to design crowdsourcing contests.Os concursos de crowdsourcing estão em crescente popularidade uma vez que representam uma forma de gerir conhecimento exterior às empresas para a resolução dos seus problemas inovativos. No entanto, pouca investigação tem sido dedicada a melhorar o design destes concursos para obter um elevado nível de participação e soluções de maior qualidade. Ao analisar um data set de 913 concursos de engenharia de software através da plataforma TopCoder, este estudo investiga as implicações de três elementos particulares do concurso – o número de participantes, o prémio monetário e a descrição do problema. Os resultados obtidos foram de encontro à teoria - um maior número de participantes é preferível. Esta relação mantém-se apesar do aumento do número de participantes diminuir os seus esforços para resolver o problema em questão (a competição é muito superior). Adicionalmente, os resultados obtidos atestam a relação curvilínea entre o número de participantes e o desempenho do concurso – o aumento do número de participantes só é benéfico até certo ponto. Ao contrário das conclusões obtidas em estudos anteriores, os resultados mostram também que um elevado prémio monetário atrai mais participantes mas dá origem a um pior desempenho. Quanto à descrição do problema, as conclusões obtidas indicam que uma descrição sucinta gera um maior número de participantes e melhor desempenho enquanto descrições com links para outras páginas dimuinem a participação melhorando, no entanto, a qualidade da solução obtida. Com este estudo pretende-se auxilar as empresas no processo de design de um concurso de crowdsourcing.Costa, Cláudia Isabel de SousaVeritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica PortuguesaKutschera, Fabian2016-09-27T15:01:02Z2016-07-1820162016-07-18T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/20771TID:201242206enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-12T17:26:41Zoai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/20771Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:17:12.242735Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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The impact of contest attributes on solvers’ participation and performance in crowdsourcing contests |
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The impact of contest attributes on solvers’ participation and performance in crowdsourcing contests |
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The impact of contest attributes on solvers’ participation and performance in crowdsourcing contests Kutschera, Fabian Crowdsourcing Open innovation Innovation Contest elements Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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The impact of contest attributes on solvers’ participation and performance in crowdsourcing contests |
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The impact of contest attributes on solvers’ participation and performance in crowdsourcing contests |
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The impact of contest attributes on solvers’ participation and performance in crowdsourcing contests |
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The impact of contest attributes on solvers’ participation and performance in crowdsourcing contests |
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The impact of contest attributes on solvers’ participation and performance in crowdsourcing contests |
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Kutschera, Fabian |
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Kutschera, Fabian |
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Costa, Cláudia Isabel de Sousa Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
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Kutschera, Fabian |
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Crowdsourcing Open innovation Innovation Contest elements Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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Crowdsourcing Open innovation Innovation Contest elements Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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Crowdsourcing contests as a means to leverage the knowledge of external individuals to solve firms’ innovation problems are growing in popularity. Little research has been de-voted to the question how such contests should be ideally designed in order to achieve a high level of participation and high quality solutions. By analysing a data set of 913 soft-ware engineering contests from the platform TopCoder, this study investigates the impli-cations of three particular contest elements: the number of participants, the monetary award and the problem description. The results confirm the theoretic model, stating that a large number of participants is preferable for a seeker (firm) and outweighs the arising disadvantage of lowered efforts of solvers due to a greater competition. This theoretic discussion was enriched by the finding of a curvilinear relationship between the number of solvers and the contest’s performance, wherefore adding contestants is only beneficial until a certain level. Furthermore, results show that a high monetary award captures more participants but leads to a lower contest performance, which is contrary to prior research. Regarding the problem description, it was shown that a short problem description in-creases participation and improves the contest performance whereas a problem descrip-tion, which includes URL links to other homepages, reduces participation but improves a contest’s best solution. By understanding the outcomes of this study, firms better under-stand how to design crowdsourcing contests. |
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