Resumen de Crowdsourcing: : useful for problem solving, but what abour value capture?

James M. Bloodgood

• The article presents the author's evaluation of a study authored by Afuah and Tucci in 2012 on factors which influence a firm's decision to use crowdsourcing in open source innovation. Topics include strategies to reduce the cost of product development, a comparison of crowdsourcing to internal problem solving, and theories of competitive advantage which amplify organizational performance and value capture.