Crowdsourcing : why the power of the crowd is driving the future of business / Jeff Howe.
An in-depth analysis of the rapidly growing phenomenon of crowdsourcing reflects on the dramatic economic, cultural, business, and political implications of applying the open-source idea to a variety of fields outside of software development and addresses the unique opportunities and problems of this expanding trend.
Record details
- ISBN: 0307396207
- ISBN: 9780307396204
- Physical Description: vii, 311 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Crown Business, [2008]
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: The Dawn of the Human Network 1 -- Section I How We Got Here -- 1 Rise of the Amateur: Fueling the Crowdsourcing Engine 23 -- 2 From So Simple a Beginning: Drawing the Blueprint for Crowdsourcing 47 -- 3 Faster, Cheaper, Smarter, Easier: Democratizing the Means of Production 71 -- 4 Rise and Fall of the Firm: Turning Community into Commerce 98 -- Section II Where We Are -- 5 Most Universal Quality: Why Diversity Trumps Ability 131 -- 6 What the Crowd Knows: Collective Intelligence in Action 146 -- 7 What the Crowd Creates: How the 1 Percent Is Changing the Way Work Gets Done 177 -- 8 What the Crowd Thinks: How the 10 Percent Filters the Wheat from the Chaff 223 -- 9 What the Crowd Funds: Reinventing Finance, Ten Bucks at a Time 247 -- Section III Where We're Going -- 10 Tomorrow's Crowd: The Age of the Digital Native 261 -- 11 Conclusion: The Rules of Crowdsourcing 278. |
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| Subject: | Business planning. Contracting out. Corporate culture. Employee selection. Industrial organization. Organizational change. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Statesville Main Library | 658.4058 HOW (Text) | 33114016191066 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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