Towards an Understanding of Participants’ Sustained Participation in Crowdsourcing Contests

ABSTRACT

This study explores the factors that influence individuals’ sustained participation in crowdsourcing contests. By conducting an empirical study using data from an online crowdsourcing contest platform, Kaggle, we found that tenure, previous performance, price amount, number of competitors, and competition duration have a statistically significant effect on individuals’ continued participation. This research contributes to the literature by identifying the factors influencing individuals’ sustained participation in crowdsourcing contests that have both collaborative and competitive components.

KEYWORDS:

• Crowdsourcing
• sustained participation
• Kaggle
• community activity

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Notes on contributors

Xuan Wang

Xuan Wang is an assistant professor of Information Systems at Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She received her Ph.D in Information Systems and Decision Science from E. J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University. Her interests include causal inference, big data analytics and virtual communities. Her research has been accepted in Journal of organizational and end user computing and have been presented in the conference such as Decision Science Institute (DSI), Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) and Hawaii International conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

Hanieh Javadi Khasraghi

Hanieh Javadi Khasraghi is an assistant professor of Management Information Systems at Lerner College of Business, University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. in Information Systems and Descision Sciences from E. J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University. Her research interests include crowdsourcing, social media, and virtual communities. Her research has appeared in Behavior and Information Technology and have been presented in conferences such as Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) and Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

Helmut Schneider

Helmut Schneider is Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs in the E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Management and Statistics from the Free University of Berlin. He has published two books and over 50 articles in refereed journals. He has analyzed traffic safety data since 1995 and has published the yearly traffic data report for the Louisiana since 1994. He is currently the Executive Director of the Centre for Analytics & Research in Transportation Safety.