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Outsourcing labour to the cloud

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posted on 2016-09-30, 15:47 authored by Jonathan R. Corney, Carmen TorresCarmen Torres, Ananda P. Jagadeesan, William C. Regli
Various forms of open sourcing to the online population are establishing themselves as cheap, effective methods of getting work done. These have revolutionised the traditional methods for innovation and havecontributed to the enrichment of the concept of 'open innovation'. To date, the literature concerning this emerging topic has been spread across a diverse number of media, disciplines and academic journals. This paper attempts forthe first time to survey the emerging phenomenon of open outsourcing of work to the internet using 'cloud computing'. The paper describes the volunteer origins and recent commercialisation of this business service. It then surveys the current platforms, applications and academic literature. Based on this, a generic classification for crowdsourcing tasks and a number of performance metrics are proposed. After discussing strengths and limitations, the paper concludes with an agenda for academic research in this new area.

History

School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development

Volume

4

Issue

4

Pages

294 - 313

Citation

CORNEY, J. ... et al., 2009. Outsourcing labour to the cloud. International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, 4 (4), pp.294-313.

Publisher

© Inderscience

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2009

Notes

Closed access.

ISSN

1740-8822

eISSN

1740-8830

Language

  • en