Announcing Academy of Management (AOM) Professional Development Workshop (PDW) on "Organizing Work Online with Crowds".
Much discussion in recent years focuses on business models and strategic aspects of crowdsourcing. The goal of this PDW is to bring together academics and practitioners to jointly examine different approaches to organizing work online with crowds. The PDW will explore the challenges associated with organizing crowds in a variety of contexts, including contests, open-innovation communities and citizen science. One key objective is to compare and contrast the models for crowd management.
This session will bring together an excellent expert panel of
academics and practitioners to facilitate an
interactive session which will compare and contrast best practice in crowdsourcing management, highlighting what works (and what doesn't), as well as draw implications for existing organizational theory.
Workshop organizers: Joe Cox (University of Portsmouth)
Natalia Levina (New York University)
Emmanouil Gkeredakis (University of Warwick)
Gary Graham (University of Leeds)
Confirmed workshop panelists:
Ehsan Ehsani (ZS Associates)
Samer Faraj (McGill University)
Pete Forsyth (Wikistrategies)
Anita Greenhill (University of Manchester)
Chris Lintott (University of Oxford)
Ann Majchrzak, (University of Southern California)
Karen Masters (University of Portsmouth)
Ching Ren (University of Minnesota)
The session will begin with a series of short panel presentations. The majority of the session will be taken up by table discussions led by practitioners and academics and will focus on three forms of organizing crowds (contests, open innovation communities, citizen science).
Location and Time
Saturday, August 6th, 16:30 - 18:30hrs, Room Catalina 1 at the Hilton Anaheim.
Registration Information
No registration required.