%0 Report %1 ls_leimeister %A Hupe, Anna %A Bretschneider, Ulrich %A Lange, Kirsten %A Trostmann, Tim %A Stubbemann, Lena %A Leimeister, Jan Marco %A Refflinghaus, Robert %B ITeG Technical Reports %C Kassel, Germany %D 2023 %I Kassel University Press (kup) %K Delphi_study SME crowdsourcing crowdworking interviews itegpub pub_ahu pub_jml pub_ubr qualitative small_and_medium_sized_enterprises %R 10.17170/kobra-202307278513 %T Barriers of SMEs in Adopting Crowdsourcing and -working and Strategies to Overcome Them %U https://pubs.wi-kassel.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JML_942.pdf %V 16 %X Despite its undisputable benefits for firms, crowdsourcing and ‐working is currently rarely applied in small and medium sized enterprises (SME). Up to now extant literature provides only an incomplete picture of the barriers that hinder SMEs from adopting crowdsourcing and ‐working. Because of these incomplete insights on this phenomenon there is also a great deal of uncertainty on how to overcome these barriers. In the scope of an interview series with 15 SMEs we explore a range of different barriers. In a second round of interviews with crowdsourcing and ‐working experts (Delphi study) we reveal strategies that may help SMEs to overcome these barriers. The findings from these two studies not only expand the so far incomplete body of knowledge but also provide practical references for SMEs to overcome the barriers and to adopt crowdsourcing and ‐working for their value creation activities. %@ 978-3-7376-1135-0

@techreport{ls_leimeister, abstract = {Despite its undisputable benefits for firms, crowdsourcing and ‐working is currently rarely applied in small and medium sized enterprises (SME). Up to now extant literature provides only an incomplete picture of the barriers that hinder SMEs from adopting crowdsourcing and ‐working. Because of these incomplete insights on this phenomenon there is also a great deal of uncertainty on how to overcome these barriers. In the scope of an interview series with 15 SMEs we explore a range of different barriers. In a second round of interviews with crowdsourcing and ‐working experts (Delphi study) we reveal strategies that may help SMEs to overcome these barriers. The findings from these two studies not only expand the so far incomplete body of knowledge but also provide practical references for SMEs to overcome the barriers and to adopt crowdsourcing and ‐working for their value creation activities.}, added-at = {2023-08-08T14:39:10.000+0200}, address = {Kassel, Germany}, author = {Hupe, Anna and Bretschneider, Ulrich and Lange, Kirsten and Trostmann, Tim and Stubbemann, Lena and Leimeister, Jan Marco and Refflinghaus, Robert}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2859e712a5df391c30e1b6e7121cc21f1/ls_leimeister}, doi = {10.17170/kobra-202307278513}, interhash = {9fb90893bdee6bb3ef46b11b961b0773}, intrahash = {859e712a5df391c30e1b6e7121cc21f1}, isbn = {978-3-7376-1135-0}, keywords = {Delphi_study SME crowdsourcing crowdworking interviews itegpub pub_ahu pub_jml pub_ubr qualitative small_and_medium_sized_enterprises}, language = {English}, publisher = {Kassel University Press (kup)}, series = {ITeG Technical Reports}, timestamp = {2024-01-12T14:49:16.000+0100}, title = {Barriers of SMEs in Adopting Crowdsourcing and -working and Strategies to Overcome Them}, url = {https://pubs.wi-kassel.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JML_942.pdf}, volume = 16, year = 2023 }