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Toward a Nexus Model Supporting the Establishment of Business Process Crowdsourcing

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Future Data and Security Engineering (FDSE 2014)

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Crowdsourcing is an emerging strategy that has attracted attention from organizations for harvesting information, labour, expertise and innovation. However, there is still a lack of a way to establish crowdsourcing as an organizational business process. Adopting a design science paradigm, the current study fills the gap by building a model supporting the establishment of business process crowdsourcing. In particular, we combined a structured literature review method, identifying individual components of business process crowdsourcing, and the design theory nexus, connecting these identified components. Our results identify twelve components that were widely proposed by the literature. These components are structured into a preliminary model concerning three stages of business process crowdsourcing: the decision to crowdsource, design, and configuration. Discussions on each component of the model and related implications are provided.

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Thuan, N.H., Antunes, P., Johnstone, D. (2014). Toward a Nexus Model Supporting the Establishment of Business Process Crowdsourcing. In: Dang, T.K., Wagner, R., Neuhold, E., Takizawa, M., Küng, J., Thoai, N. (eds) Future Data and Security Engineering. FDSE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8860. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12778-1_11

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