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- Title
Crowdsourcing Project Management to the 'Open' Community.
- Authors
Siala, Haytham
- Abstract
The aim of this article is to contribute both theoretically and methodically to the project management discipline in the context of information systems. This article provides a "multidisciplinary" summary of the current literature that focuses on the socio-technical issues and theories surrounding the crowdsourcing phenomenon. One of the objectives of this exploratory literature review is to present the reader with practical considerations about crowdsourcing as a project management technique and a conceptual model that can help 'shortlist' candidates that are 'appropriate' for a crowdsourced project task. There are proponents and opponents of the 'crowdsourcing' approach but real-life case studies of crowdsourcing companies such as freelancer.com have demonstrated that crowdsourcing can be a success and findings from some seminal articles indicate that crowdsourcing could result in expediting the completion of a project; reducing a project's overall costs; and higher user satisfaction levels towards the project's final deliverable.
- Subjects
CROWDSOURCING; PROJECT management; OPEN innovation; CONTRACTING out; FREELANCER.COM (Company)
- Publication
PM World Journal, 2013, Vol 2, Issue 10, p1
- ISSN
2330-4480
- Publication type
Article