報告時間：2023年7月24日（星期一）9:00-10:30

報告地點：管院新大樓925會議室

報 告 人：陳建清 教授

工作單位：美國德克薩斯大學達拉斯分校Naveen Jindal管理學院

舉辦單位：管理學院

報告簡介：

Crowdsourcing platforms provide venues for firms looking for solutions (seekers) to interact with individuals who can provide solutions (solvers). As crowdsourcing contest platforms have grown in popularity with numerous tasks being posted on a daily basis, a concern that has emerged is that many similar tasks compete for solver attention, with some tasks failing to attract sufficient solver participation. To alleviate such a concern, in addition to regular task listings, many crowdsourcing platforms offer sponsorship programs under which seekers pay an extra fee for highlighting their tasks to draw solvers’ attention. We examine the effect of sponsorship on solver participation using a unique data set collected from a leading crowdsourcing platform. In contrast to platforms’ claims about the effect of sponsorship on participation, we find that sponsorship does not always boost participation in crowdsourcing contests; sponsorship increases the number of participants only when the prize amount for a task is already high. Furthermore, even when the number of participants increases, the increase primarily comes from low-ability solvers. We also find that when sponsorship increases the total number of submissions, it does so only through increasing the number of participants; sponsorship does not increase the number of submissions individual solvers submit after joining a task. A more granular analysis reveals an effect of anticipated increased competition caused by sponsorship on high-ability solvers but not on those of low ability, explaining the difference in their participation decisions when facing sponsored tasks. We also find the effect of sponsorship weakens over the duration of a task for high-ability solvers and is also weaker for solvers with more experience on the platform.

報告人簡介：

陳建清教授,美國德克薩斯大學達拉斯分校Naveen Jindal管理學院Ashbel Smith教授。主要從事平臺商業模式、在線廣告及定價、網絡拍賣機制設計、在線社區和用戶創造內容、信息系統經濟學等領域的研究。在Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Production and Operations Management, and Journal of Management Information Systems等國際頂級期刊發表二十多篇論文。目前擔任Information Systems Research副編輯, Production and Operations Management資深編輯。2019年獲得Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Scholar, 2016年獲得ISS Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award of INFORMs，2007、2012、2015年獲得中國信息管理夏季研討會最佳論文獎(China Summer Workshop on Information Management，CSWIM)，2010年獲得第十五屆信息系統與技術研討會最佳論文獎(Conference on Information Systems and Technology, CIST)。另外，陳教授榮獲Information Systems Research 2019年的最佳副編輯， 榮獲International Conference on Information Systems 2021和2022年的最佳副編輯。他共同主席組織了CSWIM 2016, 2013年的E-Business Cluster of INFORMs，2014年的Information Systems Cluster of INFORMs等。他曾任2020年INFORMS E-Business Section 的主席。