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Announcing a new two-day multi- and cross-disciplinary workshop hosted periodically by the ASU Center for Organization Research and Design.  We invite scholars from across the globe to join us for an intimate meeting to discuss frontiers in organizational research.  At this inaugural symposium the topic will be crowdsourcing.

Crowdsourcing is a powerful approach to harvesting opinions and other data from large or small numbers of people, near or far. The technique is used by researchers in structured and unstructured ways. Through open calls or contests, researchers have enlisted the public to complete tasks or identify solutions to problems, both of which have served as data for research. Today we see crowdsourcing platforms being used to design and conduct experiments, generate large-scale collective intelligence, and implement interactive "games" played in real time among groups of individuals to solve various technical or engineering problems.  The mobile web and other technological advances present new opportunities to incorporate the public into the research and data collection of public, private, and nonprofit organization scholars.   

Although scholars debate what counts as crowdsourcing (as opposed to other forms of "open innovation"), they are using it in research on various fronts.  We invite research presentations on applications of crowdsourcing to organizational research problems, especially: 1) Papers that consider how crowdsourced data might enhance organizational research; and 2) Papers that answer specific research questions with crowdsourced data.  We anticipate tracks in the following three areas:

1. ·         Methodological discussions of crowdsourcing and crowdsourced data in the study of organizations;
2. ·         Creative applications of crowdsourcing and crowdsourced data to traditional research questions;
3. ·         New frontiers in crowdsourced in the analysis and evaluation of crowdsourced data.

TO APPLY: Submit 250- to 400-word proposals by email to Mary O'Brien at mcobrie3@asu.edu by May 1, 2015.  We will invite presenters and announce track schedules in early June.  Research summaries or papers at least 3-5 pages in length will be due by late August for dissemination among workshop participants.  All attendees will be asked to serve as a discussant for a paper during a workshop session.  Please direct all your questions to Justin Stritch at jstritch@asu.edu.  There will be no registration or conference fees.  Attendees will be responsible for their own travel, meals, and lodging costs.  CORD will provide one boxed lunch and a cocktail social for participants