The Concept of Task/Technology Fit in Crowdsourcing
Karl R. Rabes explores the performance impact of differing task designs in crowdsourcing, especially micro-task markets. Based on several exploratory literature reviews, the manuscript applies the task-technology fit theory and numerous quasi-experiments to show which tasks can be successfully outsourced to the crowd. It is revealed how a tasks design has an influence on solution quality taking into account respective task-, technology- and individual characteristics, and clearly delineates the differences in objective quality and subjective fit evaluations within and between task designs for micro-task markets.
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Part I Describing the Pyramid - Introduction |
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Part II Delineating the Pyramid - Stage Setting |
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8 Definition of Crowdsourcing |
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8.1 Collective Intelligence |
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Part III The First Side of the Pyramid - Micro-Task Markets |
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12 Definition of Micro-Task Markets |
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Part IV The Second Side of the Pyramid - Task-Technology Fit |
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16 Definition of Task-Technology Fit |
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16.1 Structural Contingency Theory |
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16.2 Cognitive Cost/Benefit Research |
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16.3 Technology Acceptance Model |
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17.2 The Technology Attribute |
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17.3 The Individual Attribute |
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17.5 The Performance Attribute |
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17.6 The User Evaluation Attribute |
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Part V The Third Side of the Pyramid - Task Complexity |
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Part VI Combining the Sides - Research Design |
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23.4 Theoretical Underpinning |
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Part VII Discovering the Pyramid Results |
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27 The Statistical Analyses |
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Part VIII Declaring the Pyramid - Conclusion |
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31 Theoretical Implications |
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32 Managerial Implications |
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Karl R. Rabes is a founder and project manager at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He received his PhD in economic sciences from Prof. Dr. Kathrin M. Möslein at the Department of Information Systems, Chair of Information Systems 1 Innovation & Value Creation. As a consultant he supported several major German and international companies in the planning, execution and controlling of R&D projects.