Authors: TK Koh
Year: 2025
Published in: Organization Science, 2025 - pubsonline.informs.org
Institution: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Research Area: Crowdsourcing Contests, Feedback Use, Priming Intervention, Organizational Science
Discipline: Behavioral Science
The paper examines how solvers in crowdsourcing contests prioritize feedback from seekers over peers, even when equally constructive, and proposes an intervention to improve feedback usage for better outcomes.
Methods: The study involved a field survey and three online experiments to test the theorized source effect and the proposed feedback evaluation intervention.
Key Findings: Solvers' feedback usage patterns, the source effect of feedback (seeker vs. peer), and the influence of feedback constructiveness on idea quality and solvers’ winning prospects.
Citations: 5
