Motives, Gender, and Experience: Performance Effects in Crowdsourcing Contests

The authors thank Dietmar Harhoff, Karim R. Lakhani, Ben Jones, Nicola Persico, Stefano Baruffaldi, Philip Brookins, Dennis Byrski, Fabian Gaessler, Marc Gruber, Tobias Kretschmar, Johannes Luger, Jeroen Mahieu, Michael Menietti, Felix Poege, Ammon Salter, Stefan Sorg, Misha Teplitskiy, Egle Vaznyte, Olof Zaring, and Todd Zenger. The authors also thank the participants of the Open and User Innovation Conferences in 2017 and 2019, the Technology and Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Seminar 2017, the DRUID Academy Conferences in 2018 and 2019, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Research Seminar in 2019, the Munich Summer Institute Conference in 2019, the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris Research Seminar in 2019, the INSEAD Research Seminar in 2019, and the Academy of Management 2019 participants for their useful comments and suggestions. The authors also thank their editor and the two reviewers for their constructive comments. The authors further acknowledge the support of the Topcoder management team, as well as the valuable insights of nine distinguished Topcoder members who took the time to participate in our interviews. The authors are also grateful to Maximilian Schrader and Sophia Wetzler for their support in collecting the data. The authors are listed in alphabetical order. All authors contributed equally to the paper.