Crowd Work is a phenomenon of the digital economy as well as of the modern IT era. It provides a great potential for changing the way in which businesses create value. For instance, the gold producer
Goldcorp1 made its geographical databases available to the public and offered a prize to anyone who could tell them where to find gold. The results of this open call enabled Goldcorp to increase its gold production from 53,000 to 504,000 oz a year, while it cut production costs from $360 to $59 per ounce. As a consequence, the value of Goldcorp increased from $100 million to $9 billion. This example illustrates Crowd Work as a form of gainful employment that creates digital goods and services by using human, informational, and physical resources or makes extant use of digital tools (Alter
2013). In general, work is a purposeful and conscious activity. By contrast, gainful employment denotes the part of work individuals expend to ensure the means of subsistence and income generation. …
WI – WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK – ist das Kommunikations-, Präsentations- und Diskussionsforum für alle Wirtschaftsinformatiker im deutschsprachigen Raum. Über 30 Herausgeber garantieren das hohe redaktionelle Niveau und den praktischen Nutzen für den Leser.
BISE (Business & Information Systems Engineering) is an international scholarly and double-blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes scientific research on the effective and efficient design and utilization of information systems by individuals, groups, enterprises, and society for the improvement of social welfare.
Texte auf dem Stand der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, für Praktiker verständlich aufbereitet. Diese Idee ist die Basis von „Wirtschaftsinformatik & Management“ kurz WuM. So soll der Wissenstransfer von Universität zu Unternehmen gefördert werden.
