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In this article we investigate how enterprise crowdsourcing can be used to change the innovation culture in a consultancy company by conducting an empirical investigation in a large engineering consultancy. The analysis shows that enterprise crowdsourcing has created a new and different awareness of innovation, empowered the employees, supported collaboration across different organizational units to a new extent thus contributing to small changes in the innovation culture of the organization.
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Scupola, A., Nicolajsen, H.W. (2014). The Impact of Enterprise Crowdsourcing on Company Innovation Culture: The Case of an Engineering Consultancy. In: Commisso, T.H., Nørbjerg, J., Pries-Heje, J. (eds) Nordic Contributions in IS Research. SCIS 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 186. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09546-2_8
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