| Autor: |
Garaus, Christian, Lettl, Christopher, Schirg, Florian |
| Zdroj: |
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings; 2016, Vol. 2016 Issue 1, p1-1, 1p |
| Abstrakt: |
Understanding the motivations of participants in crowdsourcing contests for grand challenges is important. It allows organizers of such contests to design them in such a way that they attract a critical mass of motivated, capable contestants to work on those large and difficult problems. In our embedded case study of the Ansari X Prize and the Google Lunar X Prize, we explore two questions: (1) What are the participants' motivations to enter the tournament, and (2) how do their motivations change over time in response to critical incidents in those multi-year contests? We find that idealism plays an important role in the decision to participate and also leads to different reactions to the same critical events. Our data also reveal that events that are perceived as positive lead to increased extrinsic motivation when they are related to the prize, while those unrelated to the challenge may prompt participants to drop out of the contest. Critical incidents that are perceived as negative lead to cognitive dissonance, which is resolved either by withdrawal from the contest or by finding an enriched set of justifications and thus developing "winning despite losing" strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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