Crowdsourcing and open innovation: a systematic literature review, an integrated framework and a research agenda

In recent years, Open Innovation (OI) and crowdsourcing have been very popular topics in the innovation management literature, attracting significant interest and attention, and inspiring a rich production of publications. Although these two topics share common themes and address similar managerial...

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Published in:Review of managerial science 2022-07, Vol.16 (5), p.1269-1310
Main Authors: Cricelli, Livio, Grimaldi, Michele, Vermicelli, Silvia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accounting/Auditing
Banking
Bibliometrics
Business and Management
Business Strategy/Leadership
Crowdsourcing
Literature reviews
Marketing
Review Paper
Systematic review
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Summary:In recent years, Open Innovation (OI) and crowdsourcing have been very popular topics in the innovation management literature, attracting significant interest and attention, and inspiring a rich production of publications. Although these two topics share common themes and address similar managerial challenges, to the best of our knowledge, there is no systematic literature review that digs deep into the intersection of both fields. To fill in this gap a joint review of crowdsourcing and OI topics is both timely and of interest. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to carry out a comprehensive, systematic, and objective review of academic research to help shed light on the relationship between OI and crowdsourcing. For this purpose, we reviewed the literature published on these two topics between 2008 and 2019, applying two bibliometric techniques, co-citation and co-word analysis. We obtained the following results: (i) we provide a qualitative analysis of the emerging and trending themes, (ii) we discuss a characterization of the intersection between OI and crowdsourcing, identifying four dimensions (strategic, managerial, behavioral, and technological), (iii) we present a schematic reconceptualization of the thematic clusters, proposing an integrated view. We conclude by suggesting promising opportunities for future research.
ISSN:1863-6683
1863-6691
DOI:10.1007/s11846-021-00482-9