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NORDSCI Conference proceedings 2018, Book 2

Business and Management

CROWDSOURCING - A NEW PARADIGM OF ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING OF PUBLIC ORGANISATIONS

Dr Regina Lenart-Gansiniec, Prof. dr hab. Łukasz Sułkowski

ABSTRACT

Crowdsourcing is one of the new themes that has appeared in the last decade. It is perceived as an innovative method that can be used for problem solving, improving business processes, creating open innovations, building a competitive advantage, and increasing transparency and openness of the organisation. The importance of crowdsourcing for organisational learning is seen as one of the key themes in the latest literature in the field of crowdsourcing. This article is a response to the recommendations in the subject literature, which states that crowdsourcing in public organisations is a new and exciting research area. The aim of the article is to present a new paradigm that combines crowdsourcing levels with the levels of learning. This article presents a cross-sectional study of four Polish municipal offices that use four types of crowdsourcing, according to the division by J. Howe. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the management personnel of those municipal offices. The research results show that crowdsourcing is a new and rapidly developing organisational learning paradigm.

KEYWORDS

crowdsourcing, organisational learning, paradigm, organisational learning paradigm

REFERENCE

NORDSCI Conference Proceedings 2018, Conference Proceedings, ISSN 2603-4107, ISBN 978-619-7495-01-0, CROWDSOURCING - A NEW PARADIGM OF ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING OF PUBLIC ORGANISATIONS, 31-40 pp, DOI paper 10.32008/nordsci2018/B1/V1/51

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