Correction to “Crowdsourcing innovation challenges: How participants react when their ideas are rejected”

Social Media Crowdsourcing: Supporting User-Driven Innovation by Generating Ideas

This article makes an attempt to understand crowdsourcing and its increasing importance in organizations. It explores how crowd acts as a problem solver and crowdsourcing generates ideas that lead to open innovation for an organization. The paper also throws light on how with the arrival and advancement of digital technologies, the concept of crowdsourcing has gained popularity and has received...

Correction: The Chilling Effect: How Do Researchers React to Controversy?

BACKGROUND Can political controversy have a "chilling effect" on the production of new science? This is a timely concern, given how often American politicians are accused of undermining science for political purposes. Yet little is known about how scientists react to these kinds of controversies. METHODS AND FINDINGS Drawing on interview (n = 30) and survey data (n = 82), this study examines ...

When Wal-Mart Enters: How Incumbent Retailers React and How This Affects Their Sales Outcomes

How Crowdsourcing Impacts Innovation Portfolio Management

The Internet has had a profound influence on innovation practices. Crowd sourcing has tipped the innovation balance from the domination of large corporations towards smaller entities and access to these innovation sources has become an important part of innovation strategy. Customer crowd sourcing, such as MyStarbucksIdea, has opened new avenues of identifying customer needs and trends. Another...

“The Killing Fields” of innovation How to kill ideas

This paper points to seemingly contradicted processes of framing innovation, idea generation and killing ideas. It reports from a yearlong innovation project, where health care professionals explored problems and tested ideas for solutions, regarding a future downsizing of the case hospital. Theories in various ways describe the opening and closing phases of innovation. Exploration and idea gen...